David Caudill
Sr. Engineering Manager at Capital One
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Caudill is a senior engineering manager with 11+ years building and leading teams that deliver scalable, production-grade cloud and back-end systems. He’s driven cross-disciplinary transformations—from provisioning tens of thousands of bare-metal servers to shaping multi-cloud, SOC2- and HIPAA-compliant SaaS operations—while improving manageability and observability for services used by millions to over a billion users. A hands-on manager who enjoys mentoring and organizational design, he has stood up Infrastructure, SRE, and DevOps functions, established incident management and feedback loops, and scaled teams and systems in startups and large enterprises alike. His background spans Microsoft-scale automation, rapid capacity scaling at startups, and clinical workflow engineering in TypeScript/Clojure stacks, giving him both depth in systems engineering and product-aware operational judgment. Colleagues describe him as inventive and candid, comfortable working across time zones and disciplines to turn complex operational problems into repeatable practices. Based in Chicago, he combines pragmatic technical leadership with a demonstrated knack for turning operational chaos into disciplined, high-performing teams.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science, Education And Behavioral Science, Bachelor's of Science, Education And Behavioral Science at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU)
Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
esoterydactyl/BuildScripts
Apr 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 4 days
esoterydactyl/developer-roadmap
Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
Roadmap to becoming a developer in 2022
Contributions:13 pushes in 1 month
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