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NashSaint

About the studio

Engineering-led. Product-minded.

NashSaint is led by Nash de los Santos, a senior software engineer and team lead with more than 15 years of experience building platforms for banks, fintech companies and product teams.

Nash de los Santos
Nash de los Santos Founder & Lead Engineer Cardiff, UK

Where product clarity meets clean architecture.

The studio works at the intersection of product clarity, clean architecture and team velocity. The goal is always the same: deliver software that solves real problems and stays maintainable as complexity grows.

That approach was shaped building systems for banks and fintech companies, including Barclays, Crestbridge and Apex Bank, where reliability, security and precision matter most. The same standards now go into every NashSaint app.

The stack spans Laravel, Symfony, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript and Vue on the web, and native mobile apps on iOS. Fast iteration cycles, careful attention to detail and close collaboration carry each product from concept to scale.

Experience includes

Barclays Crestbridge Apex Bank Google
Years in industry
20+
Role focus
Engineering & team lead
Delivery style
Agile & test-driven
Core strength
Scalable systems

Capabilities

Depth across the whole stack.

The disciplines used to architect, build and evolve production systems with performance, maintainability and clean handoff in mind.

01

Laravel

Security, architecture, Eloquent optimisation, queues, testing and clean package-first development.

02

PHP 8+

Object-oriented, testable and maintainable backend code built for long-term change and stable delivery.

03

MySQL

Query tuning, indexing strategy, reporting pipelines and data models that scale under pressure.

04

System design

Pragmatic patterns and architecture decisions that reduce complexity and improve delivery speed.

05

Frontend craft

Modern CSS, Vue and JavaScript for interfaces that feel responsive, polished and user-focused.

06

Integrations & APIs

Reliable service integrations and API-first systems that support fast product evolution.

07

Mobile apps

Native-feeling iOS experiences with in-app purchases, push notifications and secure sync.

08

Technical leadership

Mentoring developers, raising engineering standards and aligning execution with product outcomes.

Built on proven, production-grade technology

  • Laravel Laravel
  • PHP PHP
  • Vue Vue
  • Flutter Flutter
  • React Native React Native
  • MySQL MySQL
  • Redis Redis
  • AWS AWS
  • Stripe Stripe
  • Docker Docker
  • Tailwind CSS Tailwind CSS
  • Symfony Symfony
  • JavaScript JavaScript
  • Nginx Nginx
  • GitHub GitHub

Let's talk

Have an idea worth building?

From first sketch to App Store release, the studio partners with teams and founders to ship software that lasts.