Kristian Nese
Partner Architect CTO Office, CE&S at Microsoft
United States
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Top SchoolKristian Nese is a cloud-first principal architect and technology leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling Azure solutions across enterprise and partner ecosystems. Currently a Partner Architect in Microsoft's CTO Office, he has a proven track record leading incubation, product strategy and high-impact programs—from founding Lumagate’s cloud practice to driving Azure Lighthouse and SWAT initiatives at Microsoft. He blends hands-on engineering (ARM templates, PowerShell, automation for Azure Quickstart Templates and Lighthouse demos) with business acumen to deliver measurable ROI and rapid market penetration. An author and open-source contributor, Kristian combines entrepreneurial grit with a data-driven approach to product and program management. He is particularly adept at translating complex multi-tenant and monitoring challenges into repeatable automation and managed service patterns. Colleagues describe him as a visionary operator who pairs deep technical craft with pragmatic go-to-market execution.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
General Studies, General Studies at Lindås
English
Github Skills (26)
log-analysis10
cloud-infrastructure10
microsoft-azure10
analytics10
azure-policy10
azure-resource-manager10
azure-arm-templates10
automation10
azure-automation10
arm-templates10
resource-manager10
arm10
powershell10
azure10
automations10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/Azure-Lighthouse-samples
Mar 2019 - Jul 2020
Provide samples for understanding managed service solutions
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer
Cloud EngineerContributions:124 commits, 79 PRs, 48 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributes to the development and maintenance of Azure-related tools and scripts within the repository. Their work includes creating PowerShell scripts for Azure diagnostics policy generation, demonstrating proficiency in configuring diagnostics settings and integrating with Log Analytics and Event Hubs. They also developed scripts for multi-tenant ARM analytics solutions, querying tenant activity logs, and building lighthouse demos. Their contributions reflect a focus on automating Azure resource management and monitoring.
understandinglighthouseazure
Azure/azure-quickstart-templates
Aug 2016 - Sep 2018
Azure Quickstart Templates
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:139 commits, 107 PRs, 42 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kristian primarily contributed to Azure infrastructure automation through PowerShell scripts and ARM templates. Their work involved creating and configuring Azure resources related to Site Recovery and OMS monitoring, including the setup of custom script extensions. The contributions also included integrating and managing Azure resources like VMs and SQL databases, as well as automating processes such as DNS updates and backup configurations. In addition, the user made changes to shell scripts related to various tools like MongoDB and other systems.
bicep-templatestemplatesbicepazurearm-templates
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