Hristo Iankov
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
McLean, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHristo Iankov is a Lead Software Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building scalable, low-latency cloud systems and full-stack applications, currently driving platform work at Capital One. He specializes in backend architecture, high-throughput payments processing, search engines, REST APIs, authentication, and ML-driven classification, and has deep experience with databases and cloud-native tooling. His background includes mission-focused work for NASA’s TechPort and practical embedded systems, circuit design, and ECU tooling—giving him rare cross-domain fluency from hardware to distributed services. Known for combining security- and performance-minded engineering with pragmatic optimization and stress testing, he repeatedly delivers production-grade systems under real-time constraints. Based in McLean, VA, he brings a blend of disciplined engineering and curiosity that surfaces in both large-scale cloud projects and low-level hardware diagnostics.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at George Mason University
Github Skills (36)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hristoiankov/web-console
Feb 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
hristoiankov/enigma
Jan 2018 - Jun 2023
Contributions:1 release, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 5 months
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