David Cook
Director Of Engineering at Capital One
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Cook is a results-driven Director of Engineering with 11 years of senior leadership experience building high-performance, real-time, and cloud-native systems. At Capital One he leads multiple remote teams delivering the company’s first commercial SaaS product and has driven architectural changes—like a serverless platform—reducing latency by 98% and errors by 80%. He led enterprise-wide data and streaming platforms that cut data registration from weeks to minutes and enabled real-time decisioning used for fraud detection and personalized customer optimizations. An early founder and CTO, he scaled the NFL’s mobile site to handle peak Super Bowl traffic and cut incidents by 99%, reflecting a blend of startup grit and enterprise execution. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area, he pairs hands-on technical depth across full-stack and cloud architectures with talent development and cross-functional program leadership.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of California, Riverside
English, Spanish
Github Skills (3)
php2
resque2
laravel2
Github contributions (3)
deedod/laravel-resque-ex
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 11 commits, 11 pushes in 6 months
laravelphpresque
deedod/docs
Aug 2024 - Aug 2024
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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