{"id":190338,"date":"2025-09-29T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190338\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T17:14:08","slug":"microsoft-senior-solution-engineer-nolan-code-hopes-to-inspire-the-next-generation-through-quantum-computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/190338\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Senior Solution Engineer Nolan Code Hopes To Inspire the Next Generation Through Quantum Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remaining a lifelong student has led Nolan Code into the technology field with a mission to inspire the next generation.<\/p>\n

In an interview with AFROTECH\u2122, the New York City native, raised in Queens, joked that some have said his last name reflects his career path in tech. Like many other successful tech professionals, Code\u2019s interest in the field began with taking apart computers and putting them back together.<\/p>\n

His foray into the sector wasn\u2019t immediate. He first attended Morehouse College<\/a> and obtained a bachelor\u2019s degree<\/a> in history in 2003 while serving as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army Reserve.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really didn\u2019t find my groove until I got to the Atlanta University Center, which I was just called AUC now for short. It was the only place\u2026where being smart and being a person of color was not only accepted but expected,\u201d Code said of the AUC, a nonprofit that launched to represent four historically Black colleges and universities, including Morehouse.<\/p>\n

Code told AFROTECH\u2122 that curiosity and learning remained central to his journey. With an initial career goal in tech sales, he wanted to stay up-to-date in the sector. This also led him to the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, where he earned a master of business administration in global business<\/a> in 2014, gaining expertise in revenue forecasting, analysis of emerging markets, venture and international financing, managing global workforce, and more, his LinkedIn notes.<\/a><\/p>\n

When the AI boom hit, Code spent a little more than a year at Accenture in 2019 as a data engineering specialist in AI,<\/a> data engineering and architecture, per his LinkedIn. From 2021 to 2023, he worked at Microsoft as a senior cloud solution architect for data and AI in healthcare and life sciences. He managed the clinical data warehouse for a top healthcare provider and led the top AI sales engagement across the company by revenue, securing a $100 million Azure services renewal in the 2022 fiscal year, his LinkedIn notes.<\/p>\n

Code\u2019s education didn\u2019t stop there. In 2023 he enrolled in Southern Methodist University\u2019s Lyle School of Engineering to pursue a master\u2019s in AI. A few months later, Code founded a quantum-health analytics venture, according to his LinkedIn. The venture, supported through Microsoft for Startups, secured $2.1 million in funding,<\/a> and was later acquired by AWS Health.<\/p>\n

Today, Code works as a senior solution engineer at Microsoft, with tasks involving pre-sales and product demos. He told AFROTECH\u2122 that it\u2019s about \u201caligning to a business pain point and [seeing] how we can use a tool to solve it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He will soon lead a virtual session titled \u201cQuantum Computing, Cybernetics And AI: Insights for Future Innovators\u201d for members of the AFROTECH\u2122 Insider<\/a> community. The session will discuss how quantum concepts disrupt AI, cybersecurity,<\/a> and investing, and what makes it so critical, he mentioned<\/a> in a LinkedIn post.<\/p>\n

It will be held on Thursday Oct. 2 at 4 p.m EST.<\/p>\n

\"\"Photo Credit: LinkedIn\/ Nolan S. Code<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that when people hear quantum computing, if they\u2019re even aware of it at all, it sounds like magic, right. And it\u2019s really not. And I think the overarching thing that people should come away with is stay curious, because you never know where it can lead you,\u201d Code said.<\/p>\n

He also told AFROTECH\u2122 that this work is part of his larger mission to inspire the next generation of physicists.<\/p>\n

\u201cEverything else is nice, but if we don\u2019t do that, then I feel like I would have lost,\u201d Code expressed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Remaining a lifelong student has led Nolan Code into the technology field with a mission to inspire the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-190338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}