Nicolas Esteves
Chief Technology Officer at NALA
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Esteves is a CTO with 14 years of experience scaling fintech products and engineering organizations, currently leading engineering, data, security and infrastructure at NALA. He grew NALA from a handful of engineers to ~100 people in 18 months, helped scale the business across the UK, Europe and the US, and delivered 10x revenue growth to profitability while supporting integrations with 249 banks and 25 mobile money services. Previously a founding engineer at Osper, he helped build one of the UK’s early digital banks to 100k customers and a $10M raise, and has held senior engineering roles at Monzo, ComplyAdvantage and other fintechs focused on payments, AML and cloud security. Nicolas combines hands-on backend and cloud expertise with security-first practices, having led AWS security programs and incident response at Typeform and built high-performance transaction monitoring systems. He also contributes to open-source projects, improving front-end UX and tooling (e.g., enhancing the Orca esoteric programming language’s UI and MIDI sync). Based in London with a background in applied mathematics, he brings an engineering-first approach to product-led growth and regulatory-complex financial systems.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of science Applied and Industrial Mathematics Informatics, Master of science Applied and Industrial Mathematics Informatics at Université Grenoble Alpes
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
electron10
shortcuts9
ui-design9
front-end-development9
keyboard-shortcuts9
uid9
midi8
midi-instrument8
live-coding7
programming-language7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
hundredrabbits/Orca
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Esoteric Programming Language
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributed to the front-end functionality of the Orca esoteric programming language, enhancing the user interface and interaction. They implemented MIDI beat clock syncing and refined the terminal application, adding a clock and keyboard shortcuts. They also improved the overall user experience by incorporating copy-pasting functionality using the clipboard, along with a fix for the application icon on Linux.
synthesizermidisynthesissequencercompiler
hamstah/clouddream
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 2 PRs, 22 pushes in 5 months
deepdreamdeep-learningdockerdockerizedclouds
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