Jesse Emery
Director, Software Engineering at Capital One
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Emery is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 14 years of experience building everything from high-traffic enterprise frameworks to consumer-facing apps, now serving as Director of Software Engineering at Capital One. He has a strong track record delivering scalable APIs and auth systems—bringing expertise from founding a startup (YourTrove) acquired by Live Nation to architecting enterprise platforms at Goldman Sachs. Jesse blends hands-on technical depth in Python, Java, OAuth, and cloud services with people leadership, having grown and inspired teams across agencies and large enterprises. Passionate about diversity in tech and testing, he favors projects that are both technically challenging and meaningful to users. An unexpected throughline in his career is a consistent focus on identity and content normalization—building systems that aggregate, normalize, and securely serve large volumes of user content.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Drama, High School Diploma Drama at University of North Carolina School of the ArtsBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts at Sarah Lawrence College
Github Skills (9)
tracks10
maturity10
test-kitchen8
mhealth7
lucky-framework7
spree7
django2
python2
wordpress2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ejesse/elasticosm
May 2012 - Jan 2013
Contributions:79 commits in 9 months
ejesse/gobblegobble
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:28 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 7 months
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