Nathan Davies
Principal Software Engineer at Turnitin
Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNathan Davies is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems at Turnitin, specialising in Go and Python for scalable microservices and complex data intake pipelines. He designs and delivers pragmatic solutions across databases (Postgres, CockroachDB, Cassandra), Kubernetes, and AWS infrastructure, while modernising legacy monoliths and mentoring engineering teams. Notable work includes on-demand PDF-to-image conversion and ingesting heterogeneous publication sources reliably at scale. An active member of the Go community, he organises meetups and has spoken at multiple conferences, bringing both technical depth and community leadership. Outside work he balances technical curiosity with endurance sports—running, hiking and mountain biking—which informs his pragmatic, steady approach to engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computing Science, MSc Computing Science at Newcastle UniversityBA Hons Government and Public Policy, BA Hons Government and Public Policy at Northumbria University
Github Skills (107)
programming-language10
excelreader10
interpreter10
excel10
nosql10
wikipedia10
spreadsheet10
validation10
golang10
database10
xlsx10
cassandra10
vba10
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gocql10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
nathj07/go-resourcesync
Dec 2017 - Jun 2020
A Simple Go client for the ResourceSync protocol
Contributions:13 commits, 22 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 years 6 months
golanggo-clientresourcesync
nathj07/govalidator
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
[Go] Package of string validators and sanitizers for Go lang.
Contributions:15 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 9 months
golanggo-packagestringvalidationlang
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