Felipe Contreras
Principal Software Engineer at Capital One
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFelipe Contreras is a Principal Software Engineer based in Austin with a decade of professional experience building production software at Capital One, where he progressed from Associate to Principal engineer roles. Trained as an Aerospace Engineer at UT Austin, he brings systems-level thinking and a hands-on testing mindset rooted in rocket and UAV projects to software architecture and data-driven product work. He excels at bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders—skills honed as a teaching assistant and rare-books liaison where clear communication and ownership were essential. Felipe pairs disciplined, self-directed work habits (evident from academic honors and top regional performance as a trumpeter) with collaborative instincts developed through student teams and community outreach. He has practical analytics experience from early data analyst roles and a track record of reliably shipping features in large enterprise environments. Outside work he stays engaged in flight-related engineering and community STEM outreach, which keeps his engineering curiosity active and applied.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Aerospace Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering at Cockrell School of Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (30)
langchain9
amazon-bedrock9
sql9
generative-ai9
agent9
database9
data-visualization9
jupyter-notebook8
ai8
llm8
amazon8
machine-learning-models7
mxnet-gluon7
sagemaker7
machine-learning7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-iot-sitewise-conversational-agent
Feb 2024 - May 2024
Code sample to integrate Agents for Amazon Bedrock with AWS IoT SiteWise
Contributions:1 review, 6 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
aws-samples/process-optimization-workshop
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 3 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 months
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