Summary
Ermal Dedej is a Lead Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building secure, scalable payment and cloud-native systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Capital One. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Java, TypeScript, Kotlin, Spring, and AWS (AWS Certified Solutions Architect), and is adept at using AWS CDK, SAM and DevOps tooling to automate resilient deployments. Known for taking ownership of end-to-end projects, he couples rigorous testing and performance optimization with a strong compliance-first mindset for financial services. His career shows steady technical and leadership progression from full‑stack microservices work to principal and lead roles, reflecting both coaching experience and architecture influence. Based in Virginia, he combines practical product delivery with a knack for translating stakeholder requirements into auditable, production-grade systems. An early background managing teams in hospitality hints at his people-first leadership style and ability to perform under operational pressure.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology, Associate of Science (A.S.) Information Technology at Northern Virginia Community College
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Computer Science: Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Applied Computer Science: Software Engineering at George Mason University
English, Albanian, Italian, Spanish