Houssem Dellai
Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolHoussem Dellai is a Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft in Paris with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, mobile and web solutions across Azure, Kubernetes and .NET. He holds multiple Azure and Kubernetes certifications (AZ-104, AZ-203, AZ-305, AZ-400, CKAD) and served as a Microsoft MVP for six years, underscoring both technical depth and sustained community leadership. His open-source work — including a full terraform-course and Kubernetes demos that integrate Istio and Prometheus — highlights a practical emphasis on infrastructure-as-code, observability and CI/CD automation. Formerly a Xamarin and full-stack developer, he uniquely bridges app-level concerns with platform and DevOps practices to accelerate production readiness. Trilingual (Arabic, French, English), he combines hands-on engineering with training and speaking to help teams adopt Microsoft cloud patterns.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
National Engineering School of Sfax (ENIS)
English, Arabic, French
Github Skills (43)
azure-devops-server10
asp-net-core-mvc10
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
microsoft-azure10
dockers10
terraform10
terraformer10
prometheus10
sql10
azure-devops10
aac10
infrastructureascode10
ci-cd-pipeline10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
HoussemDellai/ProductsStoreOnKubernetes
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
Demoing deployment of Docker containers into Kubernetes for both minikube and Azure AKS.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Cloud Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Cloud EngineerContributions:455 commits, 13 PRs, 518 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Houssem's contributions primarily focused on configuring and deploying the application to a Kubernetes cluster, utilizing tools like Istio and Prometheus for service mesh and monitoring. The commits demonstrate expertise in AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) deployments, including setting up ingress controllers, creating service principals, and configuring Helm charts. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating Prometheus metrics, indicating a focus on observability and operational aspects of the application deployment within a cloud environment.
containersdockerfilesqlserverazure-aksazure-app-service
HoussemDellai/terraform-course
Nov 2020 - Jul 2022
Full course for deploying Infrastructure to the Cloud using Terraform
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:172 commits, 26 PRs, 190 pushes in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Houssem primarily contributes to setting up and configuring infrastructure on Azure using Terraform. Their work includes creating and modifying Terraform templates for deploying various Azure resources, such as resource groups, web applications, databases, Kubernetes clusters (AKS), and storage accounts. They also implement infrastructure-as-code practices through the use of modules, environments, and features. The user demonstrates a clear understanding of Terraform and Azure services by automating infrastructure deployment and management, along with incorporating CI/CD and testing practices.
deployinginfrastructurecloudinfrastructure-as-codeterraform
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