Summary
Nicholas Hurt is a Principal Program Manager and cloud architect with eight years focused on designing scalable, secure analytics and data platforms at Microsoft and a prior decade of hands-on Oracle and AWS experience. He specializes in turning complex data and AI strategies into operational solutions—covering architecture, governance, upskilling and optimization for strategic accounts and ISVs. Nicholas progressed from developer and DBA roles to leadership positions, giving him deep expertise across ETL, data warehousing, BI and cloud-native architectures. He combines pragmatic engineering with stakeholder-focused program management, often balancing cost, time and technical trade-offs to maximize business value. Based in England, he brings a blend of enterprise-grade cloud practice and practical legacy modernization experience that helps organizations accelerate their analytics journeys.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BIS Honours Programme; Bachelor of Commerce Information Systems Management Theory; Business Information Systems and Technology, BIS Honours Programme; Bachelor of Commerce Information Systems Management Theory; Business Information Systems and Technology at UKZN