Ian Nelson
Principal Consultant at CMAC Group
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIan Nelson is a principal consultant and seasoned technical leader with over two decades of enterprise software experience and 11 years in senior delivery roles, specialising in cloud-native architectures, backend infrastructure and event-driven systems. He has led national-scale programmes such as the NHS App—delivering messaging at sustained high throughput—and modernised legacy form and screening systems at organisations including the FCA and NHS England. Comfortable both architecting infrastructure-as-code and rolling up his sleeves for hands-on development, he blends strong delivery discipline with practices like pairing, mobbing and DevOps to raise team capability. Now launching Loxodromic Systems, he focuses on resilient, automated cloud solutions while continuing freelance technical leadership across public and regulated sectors. Notably, his career shows a rare mix of long-term systems thinking and pragmatic execution—repeatedly turning legacy constraints into scalable, reusable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Mathematics, BSc (Hons) Mathematics at University of NottinghamDinnington Comprehensive School
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Github contributions (5)
NHSDigital/nhs-app-api
Oct 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:178 reviews, 349 commits, 281 PRs in 2 years 4 months
ianfnelson/ColourBlanketWeb
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch, 2 comments in 4 years 11 months
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