Summary
Damon Cestaro is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently building services at Capital One while completing a BS in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. He has hands-on experience modernizing high-throughput systems, including a noteworthy internship where he migrated a mission-critical database to AWS RDS, boosting read performance by 160% and improving API response times. Damon’s background blends cloud-native database work and backend refactoring with practical performance optimization in production environments. Based in Winchester, Virginia, he thrives on turning complex, high-volume requirements into reliable, maintainable systems. Colleagues know him for measurable impact on latency and throughput as well as a methodical approach to infrastructure migration.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Virginia