Nathan Schepers

Helsinki, Finland (EET/EEST)

nathan.schepers@protonmail.com

Profile

Career Highlights

Experience

Systems Architect

Verso Vision

Helsinki, FI

Oct 2024 - Mar 2026

  • Architected and built a HIPAA/GDPR-compliant nurse notification system on air-gapped hospital networks. Sole technical owner: system architecture, device identity management, iOS and Android clients.

Algorithmic Accountability Reporting Fellow

AlgorithmWatch

Remote (EMEA)

Oct 2024 - Apr 2025

  • Published investigative reporting with Michael Bird on working conditions in the AI supply chain and KYC fraud in the gig economy.

Senior Software Architect

Landis & Gyr

Remote (EMEA)

Oct 2023 - May 2024

  • Led engineering on a global-scale electricity metering analytics project, including on-site workshops across multiple countries
  • Led the platform engineering team (CI/CD, Kubernetes, GCP)

Principal Software Engineer

Amadeus Global Sl.

Remote (EMEA)

June 2022 - August 2023

  • Principal engineer on global COVID credential verification system; data minimization and PII controls across all design decisions
  • Delivered talks and training materials
  • 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.

Consultant

Accenture (for Amadeus Global Sl.)

Remote (EMEA)

January-March 2022

  • Engineering leadership on a global-scale health infrastructure project

Mobile Development Lead (Open Source)

couchers.org

Remote

September 2021 - Jan 2022

  • Mentored and directed volunteer developers
  • Initial setup of mobile development repository (React Native/Expo/GitLab CI)

Senior Dev/Team Lead

Contractor (for Neos Networks)

Remote (EMEA)

February-October 2021

  • Managed client relationship and development team
  • Software development (Python, Postgres, Serverless, AWS Lambda)

Project Lead

daytrip.travel

Canary Islands, Spain

February 2020 - Dec 2023

  • Built a graph database data pipeline for discovering day trips via public transit networks (Python, Neo4j)
  • Full stack development (Python, React.js, React Native)
  • Infrastructure and automation (AWS EC2, S3, Terraform, Packer)
  • Business development and engagement with local transit operators

Consulting Engineer

Tyk Technologies

Remote (EMEA)

February-August 2019

  • Technical leadership and client consulting
  • Development of authentication plugins (Python)
  • Published technical posts on the Tyk engineering blog

Software Developer

Ricompro

Milano, Italy

April-June 2018

  • Integrated an e-commerce front end with an ERP back end
  • Security analysis and recommendations

Technical Product Manager

CRJI

Bucharest, Romania

March 2017 - March 2018

  • Day-to-day technical leadership of Liquid Investigations, a EUR 500K Google-funded platform for investigative journalists: guiding developer work, hiring front-end developers, organizing and running UI/UX sessions
  • Translated grant requirements into engineering priorities; reported directly to grant holders
  • Delivered quarterly milestone reports to Google

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

  • Built SMS-based mobile payment infrastructure

QA Team Lead

MPower Labs Inc.

Austin, TX

2010-2012

  • Led QA team; designed and built API test harness

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

  • Operated a 10M+ subscriber marketing database; implemented internal security measures

Software Integration Engineer

Solect, a division of Amdocs Inc.

Toronto, ON

1999-2001

  • Performance testing of Solect's IAF Horizon IP billing framework, including travel to HP headquarters to oversee testing on an unreleased midframe in preparation for a press release

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