Jesse Warden
Lead Software Engineer at Capital One
Mechanicsville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Warden is a Lead Software Engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building front-end UIs and serverless backends, currently driving work at Capital One after senior roles across startups, consulting shops, and enterprise teams. He has evolved with the web—moving from Director/Lingo and Flash to modern stacks like React, Elm, Node.js, and AWS serverless—bringing a pragmatic mastery of functional programming and CI/CD pipelines. Jesse pairs deep UI architecture expertise with backend BFF/API work, and has a track record of rescuing large applications and creating reference architectures at scale. A seasoned conference speaker, blogger, and YouTuber, he shares learnings to help others ramp up faster and usually injects humor into technical teaching. Outside of code he balances intense physical pursuits—bodybuilding, powerlifting, parkour, backpacking, and motorcycling—which informs his disciplined, experiment-driven approach to engineering.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Organizational Leadership and Management, Bachelor’s Degree Organizational Leadership and Management at Reinhardt UniversityAssociate’s Degree Multimedia - illustration animation audio programming EVERYTHING AWESOME, Associate’s Degree Multimedia - illustration animation audio programming EVERYTHING AWESOME at The Art Institutes
English
Stackoverflow
308reputation
8kreached
4answers
7questions
Github Skills (200)
expressjs10
testing10
test-framework10
effects10
e2e10
linting10
javascript10
middleware10
reducers10
browser10
enums10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
jsdoc10
dependency-free10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
JesterXL/real-world-functional-programming-book
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Beginners Guide to Real World Functional Programming Book
Contributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 42 pushes in 14 days
odinfunctional-programming
JesterXL/advent-of-code-2018
Dec 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 29 days
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