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Nathan Timmis

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Hi, I'm Nathan Timmis, a seasoned engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in blockchain infrastructure, AI systems, and full-stack protocol engineering.

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Hi, I’m Nathan Timmis, a seasoned engineer with over 10 years of experience specializing in blockchain infrastructure, AI systems, and full-stack protocol engineering. I focus on building secure, high-performance, and modular systems that sit at the crossroads of Web3 and large-scale machine learning. My passion lies in deploying transformer-native backends and zero-knowledge smart contract frameworks to empower DeFi, staking, and secure identity layers.

I thrive in dynamic, agile, and remote-first environments where privacy, self-sovereignty, and edge inference are prioritized. My work is centered on crafting next-generation crypto-native applications by blending zero-knowledge infrastructure with intelligent ML agents, delivering resilient production-grade solutions across multiple blockchain and cloud ecosystems.

  • 11 years' experience
  • Joined July 2025

Industry experience

  • Financial Services
  • Software & Internet
  • Healthcare
  • Government
  • Energy & Utilities
  • Professional Services

Work experience· 61 roles

LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer · Atos (via Alium Consultancy)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Implemented transformer-based analytics for web3 blockchain observability dashboards. Integrated Substrate-based consensus telemetry with Kafka and trained small language models (QLoRA, GGUF) on validator logs for predictive scoring. Supported secure deployment of confidential messaging infrastructure using Triton and PyTorch with Rust-based messaging interfaces.

LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer · Viseca Payment Services (via Callista)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Developed zkRollup-compatible payment pipelines with real-time staking and event-based transaction rollups. Engineered ledger sync between custodial and self-custodial wallets leveraging zero-knowledge proof generation for identity compliance and ML-based anomaly detection.

LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer · AXPO (IT Divisions)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Delivered low-latency messaging infrastructure using Kafka and Redis for DeFi price feeds and validator monitoring. Deployed Rust-based smart contracts with zk-snark-compatible hooks on Cosmos SDK. Built fault-tolerant ML backends to support asset forecasting and execution.

LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer · Julius Baer (via Bosshard)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos
LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer (Contract Roles) · Raiffeisen BankOct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos
LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer (Contract Roles) · Raiffeisen Bank, Julius Baer (via Bosshard), AXPO (IT Divisions), Viseca Payment Services (via Callista), Atos (via Alium Consultancy)Oct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos
LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer (Contract Roles) · Raiffeisen Bank, Julius Baer, AXPO, Viseca Payment Services, AtosOct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos
LLM + Web3 Infrastructure Engineer (Contract Roles) · Contract JobsOct 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 2 mos

Education· 23

Master of Science · Edinburgh Napier University2016 – 2018
Computer Science M1 · Staffordshire University2011 – 2012
Doctorate · Keele University2005 – 2011
Master of Science · Edinburgh Napier University2016 – 2018

Certifications and awards· 49

Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift2020
HuggingFace Transformers & LoRA Certification2021
OpenAI Prompt Engineering2022
zkEVM / Solidity Developer (Polygon / ZK Hack)2022

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