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Nathan Clement

Nathan Clement

Founder & Architect

Application architect with over a decade of experience in SaaS platforms, fraud prevention, and business systems. Currently leading architecture and AI-powered development at Spreedly.

About

I started coding to solve a problem in a college research project: hours of copying data into a spreadsheet. A small macro did the repetitive work, and changed how I thought about software.

Since then, I’ve built web applications, automated business processes, and led engineering teams. My work spans application architecture, fraud prevention, payments, and AI-assisted development.

I write about the systems I build and what I learn along the way.

Writing & projects

Writing

Long-form notes on software engineering, AI systems, product work, and the lessons behind them.

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Capabilities

Application architecture

SaaS platforms, payments, fraud prevention, and business systems.

AI-assisted development

AI-powered features, agent workflows, and MCP integrations.

Engineering leadership

Technical direction, team leadership, and cross-functional delivery.

Background

Experience, skills & education

Experience

Spreedly

Staff Engineer

2025 - Present

Leading architecture and AI-empowered development at Spreedly, scaling the Dodgeball technology to Spreedly customers while adding transaction processing capabilities.

  • Lead adoption of AI-empowered processes, development practices, and feature development
  • Scaling the Dodgeball technology to Spreedly customers while adding transaction processing capabilities
  • Driving Agentic Commerce initiatives and built Spreedly's MCP, collaborating with security, legal, and platform teams on quality and compliance

Dodgeball

Application Architect

2023 - 2025

Enterprise Fraud Prevention Orchestration Platform. Successfully acquired by Spreedly.

  • Built powerful features like Intelligent Labeling and AI Second Opinion™
  • Architected fraud detection and response pipelines for enterprise customers

NJC Enterprises

Founder & Architect

2015 - Present

Software Architecture & Development Consulting

  • Designed mission-critical customer portals for aerospace maintenance companies
  • Deployed custom project tracking and management tooling for architecture firms

Printforia

Software Engineering Manager

2020 - 2023

Enterprise Print on Demand as a Service

  • Led engineering team with sprint coordination, product design, and stakeholder management
  • Designed microservices architecture for order intake, routing, and production automation
  • Created stateless image processing services for metadata updates and optimization

LifePort

Software Architect

2015 - 2020

Aerospace Manufacturing

  • Architected company-wide business intelligence platform achieving >50% MAU
  • Built integrated systems for sales forecasting, vendor management, and compliance tracking

Skills

Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, C#, SQL, Go
Frontend
React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Tailwind CSS
Backend
Node.js, Express, NestJS, Django, .NET Core
Infrastructure
AWS, Azure, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform
AI & ML
OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, Agentic Workflows, MCP
Databases
PostgreSQL, Redis, Cassandra, Kafka

Education

Harvard University

Class of 2014

A.B. Degree in Government with Secondary in Psychology

  • Coursework in Computer Science including Data Science and Statistics
  • 3 Years Varsity Water Polo
  • GPA: 3.56/4.00