Chris Pietschmann
Senior Director, Global Practice Leader - Digital & App Innovation
Orlando, Florida, United States
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Top SchoolChris Pietschmann is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on cloud architect with 25 years in software development and a focus on Azure, DevOps, IaC, and generative AI. Currently Senior Director and Global Practice Leader for Digital & App Innovation, he combines executive practice leadership with ongoing product and training work through Build5Nines and Powergentic. He’s a frequent educator and community builder — a Microsoft MVP, HashiCorp Ambassador and former Microsoft Certified Trainer who has grown a large audience for Azure and Terraform best practices. Chris pairs deep engineering chops (patented products and back-end open-source contributions for Azure data migration and AI UI storage integrations) with practical operational security and CI/CD experience. He’s equally comfortable authoring courses, leading architecture for enterprises, and shipping code that bridges cloud services and developer tools. Based in Orlando, he often blends enterprise modernization with pragmatic, hands-on labs that accelerate teams from proof-of-concept to production.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Science Officer, Science Officer at Starfleet AcademyUniversity of Wisconsin
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Github Skills (24)
data-migration10
back-end-development10
python10
azure-table-storage10
microsoft-azure10
webui10
azure-blob-storage10
dotnet-core10
azure10
backend10
csharp10
openapi10
dotnet9
pytest9
net9
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-documentdb-datamigrationtool
Aug 2022 - Oct 2022
Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 13 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Chris primarily focused on developing an Azure Table API extension for the Azure DocumentDB Data Migration Tool. They implemented a data source and sink for Azure Table API, enabling data migration to and from Azure Table Storage. Their work involved creating data item classes, settings, and extensions, as well as writing code to read from and write to Azure Table Storage, showcasing their understanding of data migration and Azure services. The user also added unit tests.
azure-cosmos-dbcosmos-dbdata-migrationdatabasemigration
open-webui/open-webui
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
User-friendly AI Interface (Supports Ollama, OpenAI API, ...)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 1 comment, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Chris primarily contributed to the backend of the open-webui project, focusing on integrating Azure Blob Storage as a storage provider. Their work involved adding configuration options for Azure storage, modifying existing code to accommodate the new provider, and creating associated unit tests. The user's changes added the necessary infrastructure for users to leverage Azure cloud storage within the AI user interface. Furthermore, the user's commits demonstrate a focus on extending the project's capabilities to support different storage solutions.
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