James Deyerle
VP, Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolJames Deyerle is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on builder with 13+ years of experience designing and shipping large-scale systems at Google and now serving as VP and Executive Distinguished Engineer at Capital One. He led and grew engineering organizations from small teams to 85–100+ engineers, owning technical roadmaps across web, mobile, backend, tooling, telemetry, and search infrastructure while delivering zero-downtime migrations at multi-million QPS scale. Comfortable across frontend and backend stacks, he’s driven performance, cost reduction, and developer velocity through pragmatic infrastructure work and custom tooling. He pairs deep technical execution—like in-memory scaling and federated queries—with people development, running hiring and training programs for hundreds of engineers. Based in Raleigh, NC, he brings a rare combination of systems-level rigor and product-focused delivery cultivated from embedded C/C++ to global cloud services.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering and Technology Management Economics and Business, Engineering and Technology Management Economics and Business at Colorado School of MinesGithub contributions (5)
codecypherz/ffxivfisher
Aug 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:188 commits, 3 pushes, 5 comments in 5 months
codecypherz/waterdeep
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Contributions:69 commits in 2 months
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