Davis Frank
VP, Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDavis Frank is a seasoned software engineering leader with 17+ years of experience driving developer productivity, release engineering, and platform reliability across startups and large enterprises. Currently a VP and Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital One, he specializes in shortening feedback loops, improving testing and vulnerability practices, and building developer tooling that scales. He has a proven track record of growing and restaffing teams, increasing release cadence dramatically (from monthly to weekly at Fountain), and optimizing CI/CD pipelines—once cutting pipeline elapsed time by 75%. A co-author and long-time contributor to Jasmine’s test suite, he blends deep technical roots (from MMX assembly and image processing to web stacks) with executive program leadership. Based in the Bay Area, he combines hands-on engineering instincts with a talent for coaching managers and institutionalizing consistent engineering practices.
17 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Westminster SchoolsUniversity of GeorgiaGeneral Management, General Management at Harrison Metal
Github Skills (3)
javascript10
tdd9
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jasmine/jasmine
Jun 2009 - Apr 2015
Simple JavaScript testing framework for browsers and node.js
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits, 6 PRs, 1 push in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Davis primarily contributed to the test suite of the Jasmine testing framework. Their work involved modifying and reorganizing existing tests, including moving test files, renaming functions, and adding new test cases. These changes targeted both core functionality, like exception handling, and the structure of the test runner itself. The user also added documentation to the source code.
javascriptnodejstestingjasminetdd
alumni-codex/alumni-codex.github.io
Aug 2023 - Mar 2026
Links, docs, info that Pivotal (Labs) Alumni want to keep close
Contributions:2 reviews, 41 PRs, 76 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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