Jens Christensen
Principal Data Science Manager
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJens Christensen is a Principal Data Science Manager at Microsoft with 14 years of experience building reliability, performance, and AI governance for high-scale products. He leads enterprise performance governance for Copilot, delivering weekly executive health assessments that influence CEO-level strategy, risk management, and AI investment decisions. Jens has deep expertise in real-time systems and large-scale telemetry, having guided reliability strategy through Teams’ pandemic-driven growth and reduced anomaly noise with patent-pending detection and root-cause methods. He scales distributed North American data science teams to operationalize experimentation governance, performance analytics, and rapid incident response. A PhD-trained engineer and former startup co-founder, he blends rigorous research instincts with pragmatic product and cross-functional leadership. Outside Microsoft he contributes governance and data-driven growth guidance as a Board Member of Skeptoid Media.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Engineering, PhD, Engineering at University of CambridgeBEng, Acoustical Engineering, BEng, Acoustical Engineering at University of SouthamptonGithub contributions (2)
Jensenzo/Thesis
Jun 2012 - Apr 2015
Contributions:281 commits in 2 years 10 months
Jensenzo/YatzyStrategy
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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