The track record behind the studio
West Fork Digital is a new studio. The engineering behind it isn't — every case below was delivered personally by the founder, before or alongside founding it.
McLarenNeptune DigitalGhystonIONOSAND Digital
A track record built on named engagements and measurable outcomes. The studio is new. The work that earned its reputation is not. Each case below was delivered personally — no delegation, no junior buffer, no anonymous team. These speak for themselves.
Case studies
Enterprise IT distributor — secure vendor data integration platform
via Ghyston · current, contract · Technical Lead
The situationA UK-wide enterprise IT distributor (Ghyston's client) needed vendor data ingested and reconciled against an internal data warehouse and surfaced to internal teams — without opening a hole in a locked-down network.
What Nate builtDesigned and led delivery of a cloud-native, event-driven integration platform: vendor data is ingested, matched against the internal warehouse, and surfaced through a secure internal portal, on a VNet-secured, zero-trust architecture. Led the squad through design and delivery in production.
C#.NET 8Azure FunctionsService BusEvent GridSnowflake
OutcomeZero-trust security posture end to end. Event-driven architecture running live in production, handling ongoing vendor-data reconciliation.
McLaren — real-time motorsport platform
via a UK digital consultancy · Tech Lead
The situationA global motorsport brand's platform has zero tolerance for slowness during a race weekend — a slow page isn't a minor bug, it's a brand incident watched by millions.
What Nate builtServed as Technical Lead across enterprise client delivery, including real-time, high-traffic platform work. Set the engineering standards, quality gates, and automated testing regime the team worked to.
ReactNext.jsNode.jsReal-time infrastructureCloud
OutcomeMeasurably cut post-deployment defects through the standards and testing regime put in place — the platform held up under race-weekend traffic.
Transport-tech startup — children's transport platform
3.5 years · sole Engineering Manager
The situationA service moving children needed live GPS tracking and safeguarding compliance built and run correctly — with one engineer owning the entire technical function from a blank page.
What Nate builtBuilt and owned the whole stack alone: dual Flutter mobile apps, a Next.js operations portal, and a Firebase serverless backend, with live GPS tracking and safeguarding compliance baked in from day one.
FlutterNext.jsFirebaseReal-time GPSGCP
Outcome99.5%+ uptime on a safety-critical platform · ~60% faster releases · ~30% lower cloud cost — all three sustained over 3.5 years as the only engineer.
IONOS — European hosting infrastructure
Head of Server · 17-engineer department
The situationA Europe-wide hosting estate of tens of thousands of production Linux and Windows servers needed faster provisioning and fewer repeat incidents — and someone to own catastrophic-incident escalation.
What Nate builtLed the 17-engineer department responsible for the server estate across Europe, acting as senior escalation for catastrophic incidents, and drove process change through automation and blameless post-mortems.
LinuxWindows ServerVMwareAutomation
Outcome~40% faster provisioning and ~25% fewer repeat incidents, driven by automation and a blameless post-mortem culture.
Also on the record
Neptune Digital
current — Tech Lead
Owns architecture and delivery across concurrent enterprise client platforms, including real-time and high-traffic systems. Introduced engineering standards and automated testing that measurably cut post-deployment defects.
ReactNext.jsNode.jsCloud
AND Digital
Senior / Lead Engineer
Ran architecture reviews and zero-downtime modernisation for e-commerce and utilities platforms turning over £10M+. Eliminated environment drift with infrastructure-as-code and tied tech-debt work to quarterly business OKRs.
AWSTerraformDockerNode.js
West Fork Digital doesn't publish client testimonials it can't stand behind. What you see here instead: named engagements, real technology, and outcomes that were measured — not estimated after the fact.
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