Nathan McFarland drives technology strategy at Cadmus, serving as chief architect on the federal Enterprise Shared Services (ESS) program while leading growth and proposal efforts across Cadmus’ federal portfolio. He champions human-centered technology, translating AI and emerging capabilities into business outcomes that solve real problems and meaningfully improve the lives of the people who use the systems his teams build.
Nathan joined Cadmus in 2024 through its acquisition of Ventera, where he led technical innovation at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by advancing AI applications through the QualityNet Operations Dashboard and standing up mission-critical emergency programs¬—most notably the Acute Hospital Care at Home initiative, taken from design to production in three days to support a congressionally directed response during peak COVID hospital shortages. Today, he oversees enterprise services across multiple agile teams supporting dozens of ADOs.
With over a decade in technology leadership, Nathan blends strategic vision with a willingness to write code, frequently building the proofs of concept that bring his teams’ ideas into focus. He leads with the people and the customer at the center, prioritizing the AI investments most likely to move the needle for the mission. Before Ventera, he was chief technology officer at Loci, a blockchain and AI startup that helped inventors accelerate the patent process and stake inventions on-chain. Earlier, as head of engineering at KZO Innovations, he developed an e-learning platform serving hundreds of thousands of users across federal and commercial clients including Volkswagen Group of America and Audi of America, and guided the product to FedRAMP certification.
Nathan brings deep hands-on expertise across cloud architecture (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), AI/ML, and modern software delivery practices.
