Nathan Schepers

Granada, Spain (CET/CEST)

nathan.schepers@protonmail.com

Profile

Skills

Experience

Principal Software Engineer

Amadeus Global Sl.

Remote (EMEA)

June 2022 - August 2023

  • Engineering leadership on a global-scale health and identity infrastructure project
  • Coordination with stakeholders on overall goals, challenges, and opportunities
  • Research and reporting on best practices in migration of backend systems to MS Azure
  • Research projects on natural language processing tools and machine learning algorithms.
  • Preparation and delivery of talks and training materials
  • Mentoring and advising on software engineering best practices

Consultant

Accenture (for Amadeus Global Sl.)

Remote (EMEA)

January-March 2022

  • Engineering leadership on a global-scale health infrastructure project
  • Coordination and communicaiton with multiple stakeholders in an environment with changing requirements

Mobile Development Lead (Open Source)

couchers.org

Remote

September 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Coordination and mentoring of volunteer developers
  • Initial setup of mobile development repository (React Native/Expo/GitLab CI)
  • Coordination with project maintainers on overall goals and organizational challenges

Senior Dev/Team Lead

Contractor (for Neos Networks)

Remote (EMEA)

February-October 2021

  • Team leadership/client liason activities
  • Mentoring and training of junior developers
  • Sprint planning and organization
  • Software development (Python, Postgres, Serverless, AWS Lambda)

Project Lead

daytrip.travel

Canary Islands, Spain

February 2020 - Dec 2023

  • Domain research
  • Full stack development (Python, React.js, React Native, Neo4j)
  • DevOps and automation (AWS EC2, S3 with Terraform, Packer)
  • Team and project leadership
  • Business development and evangelism

Consulting Engineer

Tyk Technologies

Remote (EMEA)

February-August 2019

  • Technical leadership and client consulting
  • Participation in every aspect of the product lifecycle
  • Development of authentication plugins (Python)
  • Writing of technical blog entries

Software Developer

Ricompro

Milano, Italy

April-June 2018

  • Development of an integration between an E-Commerce front end and ERP back end
  • Design and development of a REST API
  • Analysis of overall system security

Technical Product Manager

CRJI

Bucharest, Romania

March 2017 - March 2018

  • Organization of regular meetings with the development team and project stakeholders
  • Leadership of the development team
  • Review and triage of issues in GitHub
  • Production of quarterly reports for stakeholders
  • Production of high-level technical documentation

Freelance Consultant

Self Employed

Remote

2015-2022

  • Design and implementation of a document management system for an international welding engineering company
  • Design and implementation of a Django-based order management system for high-capacity lifting devices
  • Creation of an ansible-based automated system for deployment of new web app projects, including setting up OpenVPN, generating keyfiles &c.

Academic Director

Nicomekl Coding

London,UK

January-June 2015

  • Design and delivery of targeted courses in Python, SQL

Software Design Engineer, Quality

Avvasi Inc.

Waterloo, ON

2012-2013

  • Automated and manual testing of video compression appliances for telecommunications

Software Developer

MPower Labs Inc.

Austin, TX

2010-2012

  • Development of mobile payment infrastructure (SMS interactions)

QA Team Lead

MPower Labs Inc.

Austin, TX

2010-2012

  • QA team leadership, API test harness design/development for a mobile payment company

Software Design Engineer

MKS Inc.

Waterloo, ON

2007-2009

  • On-site deployment leadership at Research In Motion on an $8M+ contract for defect management and associated integrations, performance test harness development.

Operations Lead

Exchange Solutions Inc.

Toronto, ON

2001-2003

  • Oversight of day-to-day operations for a 10M+ subscriber marketing database, design and implementation of internal security measures

Software Integration Engineer

Solect, a division of Amdocs Inc.

Toronto, ON

1999-2001

  • Design and implementation of a performance test harness for Solect’s IAF Horizon IP billing framework

Education

Bachelor of Science

University of Western Ontario, Canada

2003-2007

Computer Science

CELTA

ILSC-Montreal, Canada

2014

Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults