Dave Nash
Software Developer / Technical Architect
Senior Engineer at Gathered & Found
With more than twenty years of commercial experience, I have developed my expertise as a Software Developer and Technical Architect, especially in finance. My expertise includes a decade of working with .NET, and a deep understanding of cloud computing and microservices architecture. I am dedicated to delivering robust, scalable, and well-tested systems that meet complex business requirements.
My strengths lie in hands-on development and technical leadership, particularly in high-pressure environments such as finance and energy trading. I have excelled in ensuring projects are designed, implemented, and delivered efficiently. I am also passionate about mentoring and fostering strong engineering teams, improving processes, and driving technical excellence.
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• Modernised legacy FX systems through codebase refactoring to improve code maintainability and architectural robustness in preparation for market launch. • Implemented a comprehensive compliance screening framework for transaction monitoring, integrating regulatory controls to ensure adherence to financial crime prevention standards. • Delivered high-quality feature development across transaction processing pipelines, contributing to platform reliability and operational readiness.
• Built reliable banking and finance integration systems that connect SWIFT, Temenos, and internal platforms, ensuring smooth transaction processing and consistent data flow. • Actively contributed architectural expertise to solutions leveraging Azure RedHat OpenShift, Kafka, Azure services, and SQL Server, driving scalable and resilient implementations. • Collaborated closely with cross-functional teams to plan and deliver new features, ensuring alignment with client needs and regulatory standards. • Provided senior technical leadership, mentoring developers, and shaping best practices in financial services integration and cloud-native development.
• Reduced bug counts by 30% by enforcing structured finance development workflows, ensuring straightforward ticketing, prioritisation, and process adherence. • Successfully led migration from AWS to GCP, ensuring zero downtime and improved infrastructure efficiency. • Held external suppliers accountable, driving detailed proposals and ensuring they met technical requirements for cross-cloud database migration.
• Developed a low-latency trade reporting system, reducing trade processing time by 40% using Kafka (Azure Event Hub). • Optimised trade data ingestion, streamlining FIX protocol integrations and system reliability. • Designed lightweight containerised services, improving deployment efficiency and scalability.
Led technical strategy for migrating legacy systems in-house, enabling market expansion while driving microservices adoption and cloud-native patterns to improve deployment efficiency.
Developed microservices communicating via gRPC and Kafka, running on Kubernetes, and contributed to DevOps tasks to enhance deployment and scalability in a high-growth startup environment.
• Delivered a credit-risk decisioning platform in under a year, replacing a third-party system. • Managed a team of 15 developers, coordinating efforts between London and Gdansk. • Designed a scalable decisioning engine, improving accuracy and processing speed for credit- risk assessments.
Implemented real-time fraud detection, integrated Open Banking APIs, and developed transaction risk pipelines that enhanced financial security, compliance, and risk assessment efficiency.
Led technical support for government case management systems, ensuring reliability and compliance, while optimising performance using PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, and Docker.
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