Travis Nielsen
Chief Architect, US Commercial Industries at Microsoft
Oak Park, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTravis Nielsen is a cloud-native technology leader with over two decades of experience helping enterprises modernize through automation, security-first practices, and mobile-first design. As Chief Architect for US Commercial Industries at Microsoft, he blends strategic vision with hands-on cloud and distributed systems expertise developed across roles from Principal Cloud Solution Architect to Director of Digital Advisory. He has deep experience in Azure foundations, DevOps, identity, governance, data and AI, and has led teams delivering solutions for large retail and enterprise customers. An active contributor to tooling for cloud diagrams and build automation (notably updates to Azure PlantUML build processes), he bridges architecture, developer tooling, and cloud infrastructure. Based in Oak Park, IL, he combines technical mentorship and practice management with a background that uniquely pairs enterprise architecture with a creative foundation in music. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex security and integration challenges into pragmatic, scalable roadmaps.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Music, BS Music at University of CincinnatiMS Computer Science (incomplete), MS Computer Science (incomplete) at DePaul University
German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (11)
azure10
diagram10
microsoft-azure10
architectures10
plantuml10
architecture10
scripting9
uml9
userscripts9
script9
azure-blob-storage4
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
plantuml-stdlib/Azure-PlantUML
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
PlantUML sprites, macros, and other includes for Azure services
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 24 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Travis's commits primarily focus on build-related changes and updates to the PlantUML diagrams for Azure services. They modified the build scripts, potentially to incorporate new Azure icons and services. These changes involve modifying the build process and generating the PlantUML diagrams, indicating involvement with cloud infrastructure and diagram generation.
macrosumlc4modelazure-servicesplantuml
travisnielsen/graphclient-dotnet
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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