Summary
Bashar Al Atoum is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building secure, cost-saving backend systems and cloud infrastructure across finance and insurance enterprises. Currently at Capital One, he develops Golang microservices for a unified software reliability platform, following prior roles where he engineered key-management services, encryption flows, and enterprise-grade tooling at JPMorgan Chase that saved millions. He has a strong cloud and Linux foundation from work at the Federal Reserve and has delivered high-availability AWS services and event-driven processors that supported thousands of users at State Farm. Known for pragmatic automation and prototyping—his internal tooling has won corporate hackathons and materially reduced operational costs—he combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation. Based in Plano, Texas, he brings a research background in scientific computing and legacy modernization, bridging academic rigor with production-grade engineering.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington