Dennis Zielke
Principal Technical Specialist - Cloud Native Applications
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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SeniorDennis Zielke is a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft, based in Cologne, Germany, shaping cloud-native architectures for enterprise-scale solutions. With eight years of experience, he helps customers envision, design, build, and deploy innovative solutions that leverage cloud-native and AI capabilities. As a Cloud Native #AI Architect at Microsoft, he drives architectural innovation, validates new technologies, and defines best practices to empower ISVs and implementation partners. His open-source work, notably the denniszielke/phoenix project, spans the full stack—from Angular front-ends and Go-based backends to Kubernetes on Azure, with App Insights instrumentation and Redis caching. He combines hands-on development with strategic oversight, delivering reliable, scalable systems while mentoring teams to adopt modern cloud-native patterns.
9 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
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javascript10
javascripts10
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back-end-development10
angular9
front-end-development9
frontend-development9
go9
azure8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pod8
redis8
microsoft-azure8
devops7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
denniszielke/phoenix
Oct 2017 - Sep 2022
Containerize your enterprise - tutorials and resources for learning Kubernetes hands on using azure!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:183 commits, 11 PRs, 360 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Dennis made multiple contributions to both the frontend and backend of the application. They added new versions of apps, including changes to JavaScript-based frontend code with Angular and incorporated App Insights for monitoring. They also worked on the Go-based backend, adding App Insights instrumentation and refining code related to calculations. Furthermore, the user integrated Redis for caching and included OS-level information.
containershands-onkubernetes-learningvstsdevops
denniszielke/adventure-day-agent
Apr 2024 - Mar 2025
This repository hosts the adventure day agent code for the Azure AI Adventure Day event "Return of the curious Smoorghs"
Contributions:2 reviews, 17 PRs, 40 pushes in 11 months
azuregameopenaipython
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