Dylan Heirstraeten is a Senior Product Manager based in Paris with 10 years of experience blending technical depth and product leadership across startups and scale-ups. With dual Master's degrees in Computer Science and Management & Entrepreneurship, he moves fluidly between strategy, data-driven decision making, and hands-on technical delivery—from ML-driven tooling and APIs to full-stack platforms. At PayFit he progressed from Product Builder to Senior Product Manager, shaping payroll/product workflows and cross-functional processes that accelerate time-to-market. His background as a creative technologist and former head of data science signals strong capabilities in building teams, architecting analytics solutions, and operationalizing algorithms into production. Notably, he has shipped open tools for hyperparameter optimization and built end-to-end crypto and ML systems, showing a penchant for bridging research-grade models with usable products.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
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Exchange Student Mathématiques et informatique, Exchange Student Mathématiques et informatique at Chung-Ang University
Master Management de l'innovation et entrepreneuriat, Master Management de l'innovation et entrepreneuriat at Université de Haute-Alsace Mulhouse-Colmar
Contributions:30 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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Dylan Heirstraeten - Senior Product Manager at PayFit