Nick Dzugan

Nick Dzugan is a Principal Software Engineer in Cybersecurity at Walmart, with a tenure at the company beginning in September 2015, where previous roles included Software Engineer III and Senior Systems Programmer. Prior experience includes serving as a Graduate Research Assistant at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, focusing on lock-free data structures under Dr. Peter Pirkelbauer, and as a Graduate Teaching Assistant, where responsibilities included leading lab sessions on object-oriented programming in Java. Additional research assistant roles were completed at Samford University, contributing to projects on constrained randomness and family interactions, along with tutoring student-athletes in math and computer science. Early professional experience includes guiding whitewater rafting and a brief role as a cashier at Walmart. Dzugan holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from The University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Samford University.