# Nelson Nazareth

> Staff Software Engineer, Financial Platform at Chime.

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nelsonnazareth

Experience: -
	- Large scale NFC service deployments
	- Building scalable SOA application.
	- Successfully managed and worked with disparate, geographically separated team.
	- MVP based engineering process
	- Mobile application development

Specialties: - 
- Java, GOLang
- Docker , Kubernetes
- Scalable architecture
- Middleware - Kafka
- OO Analysis
- Agile processes
- MongoDB , Cassandra
- AWS 
- Terraform
- NFC, Global Platform
- Temporal

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Chime
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Staff Software Engineer (Backend/Platform) on Chime’s Financial Platform (Payments/ACH). Led the ACH team and contributed to the money-movement ledger/journal; improved reliability, scalability, and performance, migrated services to internal microservices on the platform, and set standards for feature flags, alerting/Datadog, SLOs/SLIs, observability and runbooks—while mentoring senior engineers and partnering with Product, and Risk/Compliance.

### Principal Architect, Platform Services @ Sequent Software, Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2021
As Principal Architect at Sequent, I led the repurposing of Sequent’s payment token engine for healthcare and identity markets. I successfully migrated a legacy monolithic payment product to a microservice architecture, enabling both on-premises and cloud-native deployments. Additionally, I spearheaded the deployment of the payment platform for banks in Japan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia.

### Lead Software Engineer @ Sequent Software, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015
As a Lead Software Engineer at Sequent, I collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders to prepare RFI and RFP responses for potential banking clients and worked with the executive team to define programs for channel partners in Asia. Additionally, I led offshore teams in Kiev, Singapore, and Chennai, coordinating efforts to ensure successful platform delivery.

### Lead Software Engineer @ ViVOtech
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Led a team to develop and maintain Global Platform (GP) compliant Service Provider (SP) and Trusted Service Manager (TSM) servers, enabling banks to provision payment cards on mobile wallets. Architected a UI framework with Ext-JS and RESTful APIs, and created JavaScript libraries for enterprise use. Developed a workflow framework based on Global Platform specifications to ensure efficient and secure transaction processing.

### Sr J2EE Developer @ Wells Fargo Bank
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010

### Project Manager @ Mphasis
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
As the Lead Engineer at J.P. Morgan Chase, I led the design and implementation of CRISPE, an advanced ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) application. CRISPE featured dynamic tuning capabilities to support horizontal scaling and utilized sophisticated integration patterns. Additionally, I developed a critical credit risk portal that provided essential insights for M&A decisions during the 2008 financial crisis, significantly aiding the bank's strategic operations.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
San Francisco Bay University

### Bombay University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/nelsonnazareth

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Last updated: 2026-04-12