Summary
Nathan Cashmore is a Product Engineer with over 15 years of experience delivering enterprise-scale Java systems and a decade of contractor work across finance, government, retail and telecom. He currently shapes engineering direction at John Lewis & Partners and has a proven track record leading teams and building resilient microservice architectures for clients like Deutsche Bank, Waitrose, Goldman Sachs and IBM engagements. Comfortable communicating from board level to developer ergonomics, he combines hands-on backend Java/Spring expertise with React front-end experience and event-driven designs using Kafka. As a former managing director and long-term contractor he brings entrepreneurial drive, exceptional interpersonal skills and a reputation for motivating teams to consistently deliver high-impact projects. Notably, his career spans both high-availability public-sector services (GAMSTOP, DWP) and fast-moving commercial platforms, demonstrating an ability to balance reliability, compliance and rapid delivery.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, Computer Science & Software Engineering, 2.1, BSc, Computer Science & Software Engineering, 2.1 at The University of Birmingham