Angelo Licastro
Senior Software Engineer at Capital One
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAngelo Licastro is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently focused on infrastructure and backend systems at Capital One after a high-impact tenure at Yelp. He specializes in large-scale logging, metrics, and streaming data pipelines—having scaled logging throughput 100x, cut fraud detection false positives by 90%, and migrated critical SIEM and authentication systems to more scalable, cost-effective solutions. Angelo blends hands-on systems work (Spark, Python, Splunk/SIEM, streaming) with security and cost stewardship, often acting as a cross-team liaison to drive measurable savings and reliability. He also mentors engineers, runs interviews, and has led zero-downtime handoffs of complex UGC abuse infrastructure, showing a knack for operationalizing durable systems. Based in Washington, D.C., he brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to reducing latency and cost while improving observability and trust in production systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Canisius University
Github Skills (14)
signalfx9
programming-language8
terraform-provider8
python8
terraform7
collector7
ruby7
golang7
go6
graphite5
monitoring4
prometheus3
irc1
chatbot1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
angelolicastro/bed
Jun 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:54 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 1 month
angelolicastro/harpoon-for-instagram
Feb 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 3 months
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