Niels Talens
Product Owner at Ministerie van Volksgezondheid, Welzijn en Sport
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Talens is a founder and seasoned product-and-DevOps leader with 11+ years of experience turning ideas into production-ready platforms across startups and large enterprises. He blends hands-on product ownership, agile coaching and DevOps transformation to create high-quality, measurable outcomes—introducing data-driven prioritization, hypothesis-driven development and metrics like MTTR and throughput to accelerate delivery. Niels has led roles from Head of Software Development to IT Lead and Chief Product Owner, aligning remote teams, setting roadmaps, and overseeing MVP quality across cloud migrations and CI/CD pipelines. He’s pragmatic about tooling but obsessive about optimizing the whole value stream, often catalyzing fast delivery through design sprints, hackathons and compact DevOps teams. A repeat founder and consultant in the Randstad, he pairs product thinking with practical engineering practices to productize services such as document-management-as-a-service. Less obvious: he consistently translates business goals into measurable technical change, turning organizational metrics into a lever for sustained product improvement.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Mediatechnologie, Bachelor Mediatechnologie at Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences
Github Skills (8)
trello6
cli5
cli-app4
ruby4
validation3
dashboard1
waffle1
project-management1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
GetGareth/getgareth.github.io
Jun 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 56 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 2 months
NielsTalens/dear-non-it-people
Feb 2021 - Nov 2023
Contributions:56 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 2 years 8 months
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