Chad Kittel
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolChad Kittel is a Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of cloud and architecture experience, currently shaping Azure guidance and learning content at Microsoft. He leads engineering efforts across the Azure Well‑Architected Framework, Architecture Center, and Cloud Adoption Framework, blending hands‑on AKS/Infrastructure-as-Code work with strategic content and quality review. His background spans hands-on cloud solution architecture, director-level product engineering, and early Unix/Linux systems work—giving him a rare mix of deep platform knowledge and product leadership. An active contributor to the AKS Baseline reference implementation, he focuses on secure, automated deployments and AAD integration for regulated and multi-region scenarios. Based in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, Chad brings pragmatic, evidence-based Azure authenticity to teams and customers while quietly maintaining open-source roots from his long volunteer work on Lunar-Linux.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Computer Systems, BS Management Computer Systems at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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kubernetes10
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Github contributions (5)
mspnp/aks-baseline
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
This is the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Baseline Cluster reference implementation as produced by the Microsoft Azure Architecture Center.
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Cloud Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:23 releases, 369 reviews, 208 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Chad primarily contributed to the infrastructure-as-code and deployment aspects of the AKS baseline, as produced by the Microsoft Azure Architecture Center. Their work involved creating and modifying deployment scripts for networking components, Azure Active Directory integration, and cluster configuration. The user also made changes related to Azure Policy and updated dependencies, demonstrating a focus on automation and best practices for secure AKS deployments.
bicep-templateskubernetes-serviceazure-kubernetesazure-firewallmicrosoft
mspnp/iaas-landing-zone-baseline
Jun 2023 - Sep 2024
This is the IaaS baseline for Azure landing zones reference implementation as produced by the Azure Architecture Center.
Contributions:16 reviews, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 2 months
azure-architecture-centerazure-landing-zonesbicephub-spokeiaas
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