Summary
Nabeel Prior is an Azure Technology Specialist at Microsoft with over 10 years of experience designing cloud-native application solutions and modernizing enterprise landscapes. He blends deep technical expertise across Azure PaaS, DevOps, Functions and Cosmos DB with practical architecture skills honed as a Cloud Solutions Architect and long-standing integration specialist. As former EMEA lead for the Worldwide Azure SME Program he grows technical communities and amplifies knowledge-sharing to accelerate customer outcomes. Comfortable bridging business and engineering, he has led teams on high-profile digital transformation projects—from sports analytics to large-scale EIPP integrations—while balancing cost, supportability and open-source interoperability. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he pairs hands-on solutioneering with program-level leadership, and often operates as the technical translator between executives, partners and engineering teams.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Incomplete MBA, Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Incomplete MBA at Oxford Brookes University
Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) (Honours) Information Systems, Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) (Honours) Information Systems at Rhodes University
English, Afrikaans