Christopher Licata
Tech Lead (Manager) For Core Customer SRE Platform Team
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Licata is a tech lead and manager with 10 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently leading Capital One’s Core Customer SRE Platform team that automates lifecycle management for DSE-Cassandra clusters. He blends hands-on engineering (Golang, Python, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, AWS) with people leadership to deliver resilient platforms that protect critical customer data across the enterprise. His background spans financial services, enterprise resource management, networking research and federal work, and he holds certifications in Apache Spark, Apache Cassandra, and AWS Solutions Architecture. Christopher has driven major performance wins—such as a 3000% optimization of Spark jobs—and evangelized Cassandra adoption through trainings and open-source contributions, including backend work on the widely used The Blue Alliance project. He’s known for turning operational complexity into self-service tooling that scales and for mentoring engineers into certified Cassandra practitioners.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The George Washington UniversityCertificate of Completion Psychology, Certificate of Completion Psychology at Harvard Summer School
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Github Skills (10)
database-management10
api10
python10
apidoc10
api-design9
restful-api9
google-app-engine9
rest-api9
api-rest9
rc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
the-blue-alliance/the-blue-alliance
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
A webapp for accessing information about the FIRST Robotics Competition.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 18 days
Contributions summary:Christopher implemented new API endpoints and database interactions related to district teams. They created an admin script to generate district teams based on event data, showcasing familiarity with data processing and database management. Furthermore, they added a feature to include a team motto in the team model, along with modifications to API documentation and tests, improving the overall functionality and usability of the application. These changes demonstrate a focus on API development and data modeling.
first-robotics-competitionreactroboticsfirst-frcfirst-robotics
cmlicata/cloudcli-cookbook
Mar 2017 - Nov 2018
Cookbook which installs and configures cloud cli tools
Contributions:2 releases, 7 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 8 months
cookbookinfrastructure-managementalibabacloudcli-toolscli
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