Summary
Jordan Nielsen is a cloud and AI platforms leader with two decades in IT and a decade focused on Azure, currently directing Cloud & AI Platforms for Telco, Media & Gaming at Microsoft from Lehi, Utah. He has progressed through senior Azure infrastructure and solutions roles at Microsoft after architecting cloud systems at Ancestry and storage solutions at Adobe and healthcare institutions. Jordan blends hands-on architecture, security and compliance expertise with customer-facing technical leadership, helping enterprise clients adopt scalable, production-grade Azure services. He’s known for translating complex cloud requirements into pragmatic, secure, and repeatable designs and for mentoring cross-functional teams that bridge sales, engineering, and support. Outside the obvious cloud credentials, his career arc reflects deep storage and systems roots that inform practical infrastructure tradeoffs at scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Information Systems Information Technology, Computer Information Systems Information Technology at Southern Utah University