Summary
Nathan Deamer is a Staff Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-native, microservice-driven systems for large consumer platforms. He has led greenfield and transformation projects at companies like Go City, Virgin Red and Sainsbury’s, specialising in Spring Boot services, AWS container platforms (EKS/Fargate), event-driven architectures and observability at scale. Nathan blends hands-on coding with technical leadership—architecting core systems, managing multi-squad delivery and owning contract testing and migration strategies that safely moved millions of users. He has a strong operational mindset from high-availability, high-throughput systems (e.g., Clubcard identity services) and a track record of improving CI/CD, testing and runbook practices. Based in Watford, he pairs pragmatic engineering with mentoring and cross-team collaboration to turn complex product goals into resilient, auditable systems. An unstated differentiator: he consistently moves projects from monoliths to modern stacks while maintaining service continuity during large-scale customer migrations.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
GCSEs/A-Levels, GCSEs/A-Levels at Rickmansworth School
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Hertfordshire
Sun Certification School
English