JanĀ Schietse
Principal Product Manager at Microsoft
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolJan Schietse is a Principal Product Manager based in Ghent with a focused expertise in Clinical Language Understanding and generative AI for health and life sciences. With a career bridging product, content strategy and data systems at Microsoft, Nuance, Clarivate and Thomson Reuters, he excels at turning complex clinical NLP research into production-ready products and roadmaps. He combines a PhD-level analytical background in theoretical physics with hands-on leadership of editorial and agile development teams, enabling clear translation between technical, clinical and business stakeholders. Known for driving CLU product suites and operational excellence, he has a track record of improving knowledge management and data quality at scale. Less obvious: his career progression reflects a rare blend of deep scientific training and long experience in content-intensive product operations.
2 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiaat, Natuurkunde, Licentiaat, Natuurkunde at Ghent UniversityPhd, Theoretical Physics, Phd, Theoretical Physics at Hasselt UniversityHoger secundair onderwijs, Mathematics, Hoger secundair onderwijs, Mathematics at Stedelijk Atheneum Wispelbergstraat
Dutch, French, English, German, Wolof
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (2)
JanSchietse/azure-docs
Feb 2024 - Feb 2024
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025
Open source documentation of Microsoft Azure
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR in 1 year
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