Roeland Nieuwenhuis
Chief Architect at Microsoft
Issaquah, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRoeland Nieuwenhuis is a seasoned cloud architect and technical leader with 11 years of experience driving large-scale Azure adoption and platform strategy at Microsoft, where he currently serves as Chief Architect on the Innovation Acceleration Team. He combines hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source projects like the Terraform AzureRM provider with DNS and CAA support—with high-impact cross-organizational influence to unblock customers and shape operating practices at scale. His background spans data, analytics, and AI solution architecture for enterprise clients, plus earlier product delivery and go-to-market leadership for a $120M ARR analytics product. Known for empathetic mentorship and pragmatic problem-solving, he excels at resolving politically sensitive, high-complexity issues that bridge field, engineering, and strategy. Based in Issaquah, he pairs a business and engineering education with a knack for quietly fixing the hardest operational fires.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business administration, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Business administration at Radboud UniversityInnovation Management, Innovation Management at Eindhoven University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Information Technology at Windesheim
Dutch, English, German, Polish
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Github Skills (20)
getdnsapi10
microsoft-azure10
terraform10
terraform-provider10
azure-resource-manager10
terraformer10
go10
dns10
azure10
apidoc9
api9
type-conversion9
testing8
async-await6
powerpoint6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm
Jun 2018 - Jul 2018
Terraform provider for Azure Resource Manager
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Roeland focused on updating the Azure Resource Manager provider for Terraform, specifically related to DNS services. They added support for the 2017-10-01 version of the DNS management API, which involved adding new models and updating existing configurations. The user updated existing code to align with newer versions of the DNS API, and also implemented CAA (Certification Authority Authorization) logic and tests.
azure-resource-managerterraform-providerterraformazure
ranieuwe/recipedb
Dec 2019 - Jul 2024
Parsing recipes, one ingredient at a time
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
pythonrecipesparsingingredientparser
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