Michiel Van Otegem
Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMichiel Van Otegem is a seasoned program manager and cloud/edge strategist who shapes vision and delivery for sovereignty, security, and resilient infrastructure across public, hybrid, and private cloud. He blends hands-on technical depth—datacenter architecture, identity and key management, edge/IoT, and secure software supply chains—with program leadership that supported billion-dollar deals and sovereign region expansions in France, Germany, and Singapore. At Microsoft he incubated Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, authored patents on an attestable software supply chain, and led co-engineering with Fortune 500 customers and major platform initiatives. Comfortable briefing C-level executives and government officials as well as mentoring engineers, he’s also a prolific community builder and author, founding the Dutch .NET user group and earning nine Microsoft MVP awards. Based in Amsterdam, his interdisciplinary background in sociology and IT gives him a pragmatic, people-centered approach to solving complex technical and policy problems. Notably, he pairs strategic program leadership with concrete product incubation experience—turning sovereignty concepts into operational cloud offerings.
10 years of coding experience
Propedeutics, Information Technology, Propedeutics, Information Technology at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)High School, High School at Montessori Lyceum AmsterdamSociology, Sociology at University of AmsterdamGrammar school, Grammar school at Montessorischool Landsmeer
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (69)
microsoft-azure10
arm10
azure10
microsoft10
arm-templates10
bicep9
speaker7
tflint7
catalog6
scenarios6
minimum6
architecture5
outlining5
internet5
polyglot-persistence5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AzureCAT-GSI/IOT
May 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
storedanalyticssmart-devicessensorsamounts
AzureCAT-GSI/Compute
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:26 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
fault-tolerantfaultazure-containervmsstakes
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