Dennis Zielke
Principal Technical Specialist - Cloud Native Applications
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDennis Zielke is a Principal Technical Specialist at Microsoft with nine years of experience designing and delivering cloud-native application architectures for enterprise customers. Based in Cologne, he helps organizations envision, build, and deploy innovative solutions while defining best practices and validating new technologies for ISVs and implementation partners. A hands-on Cloud Native AI architect, he contributes full-stack code—demonstrated by his phoenix repository that teaches Kubernetes on Azure and includes Angular front-end work, a Go backend, Redis caching, and App Insights instrumentation. He combines deep engineering craft from an RWTH Aachen computer science background with a talent for translating complex distributed systems into practical, production-ready patterns. Known for empowering teams and partners, he balances strategic architecture with active open-source teaching resources that accelerate cloud adoption.
9 years of coding experience
Dipl. Inf., Informatik, Dipl. Inf., Informatik at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (12)
javascript10
backend10
back-end-development10
angular9
front-end-development9
go9
azure8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
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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