Nills Franssens
Cloud And AI Specialist at Microsoft
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolNills Franssens is a Cloud and AI Specialist with a decade of hands-on experience helping strategic software and digital platform customers modernize on Microsoft Azure, GitHub, Kubernetes and OpenShift. Formerly Director of Digital and Application Innovation at Microsoft, he blends solution architecture depth with product and adoption advocacy to remove technical blockers and accelerate cloud transitions for startups and enterprises alike. He has applied his infrastructure expertise to open-source projects—contributing Azure-focused automation and AKS networking scripts to a Hands-on Kubernetes on Azure repository—demonstrating practical scripting and provisioning skills in bash and Python. Based in Redwood City, he pairs an industrial engineering background with a pragmatic focus on driving business outcomes through training, tailored solution design, and direct product engagement. Colleagues know him for turning complex cloud patterns into executable roadmaps that scale.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Industrial Engineering: Electronics - ICT, Master's degree Industrial Engineering: Electronics - ICT at Karel de Grote - University CollegeSecondary School Latin Mathematics 8h, Secondary School Latin Mathematics 8h at Sint-Jozef-Klein-Seminarie
Dutch, English, French
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Github Skills (13)
sh10
kubernetes10
azure10
script10
cloud-infrastructure10
shell10
microsoft-azure10
gateway10
scripting10
kubernetes-pods10
docker6
dockers6
python5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Hands-on-Kubernetes-on-Azure-Third-Edition
Feb 2021 - Aug 2021
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:52 commits, 12 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nills primarily contributed to infrastructure setup and configuration within the Azure cloud environment, specifically related to Kubernetes and application gateways. The commits demonstrate the creation of an Azure Application Gateway using shell scripting, along with the configuration of virtual network peering for communication with an AKS cluster. Additionally, there are updates to several bash scripts and Python scripts.
NillsF/kubernetes-the-hard-way
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 6 pushes in 3 months
gcpgooglegoogle-cloud-platformcloud-platformkubernetes
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