# Clemens Schotte / clemens.ms

> clemens.ms is the personal technical blog and professional website of Clemens Schotte.

Clemens Schotte is a Dutch software engineer, platform builder, technology leader, and founder of NavaTron B.V. He has 25+ years of experience building software products, cloud platforms, enterprise systems, and digital transformation programs.

## Professional Background

- Founder of NavaTron B.V., focused on product strategy, program execution, cloud modernization, AI-enabled automation, SaaS platforms, route optimization, business process digitization, and Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extensibility.
- Former Senior Program Manager for Azure Maps at Microsoft, where he worked on product strategy, roadmap execution, customer adoption, platform evolution, and the transition from Bing Maps for Enterprise to Azure Maps.
- Former Microsoft cloud consultant, application platform consultant, premier field engineer, and technical evangelist.
- Former Dropbox Solutions Architect for strategic enterprise accounts in the Benelux.

## Technical Expertise

- Microsoft Azure, Azure Maps, Azure Functions, Azure AI Search, Azure OpenAI, Azure CDN, Azure Application Gateway, Azure Key Vault, and cloud-native architecture.
- .NET, C#, APIs, SaaS products, developer platforms, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and enterprise software delivery.
- Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central extensibility and productivity solutions.
- AI-assisted software development, Model Context Protocol (MCP), semantic search, n8n automation, and AI agents.
- Geospatial applications, routing, mapping, spatial analytics, logistics optimization, and IoT scenarios.
- Independent systems and game development interests including Zig, Raylib experiments, retro computing, MS-DOS, C, Amiga, and Commodore.

## Projects

- CaveRace: A maze-based MS-DOS game originally developed in 1997 using Borland C 3.1 and x86 assembly, with source available on GitHub.
- Azure Maps MCP Server: A public Azure Maps Model Context Protocol server project using .NET, Azure Functions, and Azure Maps APIs.
- Personal AI Blog Assistant: A clemens.ms assistant architecture using Hugo JSON output, n8n, Azure AI Search, and Azure OpenAI embeddings.
- NavaTron Write: A personal/open-source terminal word processor project in Zig. TODO: add canonical public project URL when published on clemens.ms.
- GeoLibre: TODO: confirm whether this project has a public page or repository on clemens.ms.

## Blog Topics

clemens.ms publishes technical notes and articles about Microsoft technologies, Azure, Azure Maps, .NET/C#, Business Central, AI agents, MCP, software engineering, DevOps, geospatial systems, logistics optimization, Zig, retro computing, game development, networking, energy technology, and entrepreneurship.

## Key Links

- Website: https://clemens.ms/
- About: https://clemens.ms/about/
- Resume: https://clemens.ms/resume/
- Blog posts: https://clemens.ms/posts/
- GitHub: https://github.com/cschotte
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cschotte/
- CaveRace: https://clemens.ms/caverace/
- CaveRace repository: https://github.com/cschotte/caverace
- Azure Maps MCP article: https://clemens.ms/enabling-geospatial-intelligence-in-llms-with-azure-maps-and-mcp/
- Azure Maps MCP repository: https://github.com/cschotte/azure-maps-mcp
- AI index: https://clemens.ms/ai-index.json