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.
15 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 Art Institute of Atlanta
English
Stackoverflow
308reputation
8kreached
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7questions
Github Skills (188)
testing10
effects10
javascript10
middleware10
vue-testing-library10
react-testing-library10
jsdoc10
bdd10
redux-saga10
angular-testing-library10
matching10
testing-library10
tdd10
cypress10
svelte-testing-library10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JesterXL/eslint-plugin-fp-jxl
Nov 2018 - Apr 2019
ESLint rules for functional programming
Contributions:26 commits, 14 pushes, 2 tags in 5 months
eslintfunctional-programming
JesterXL/hm-doc
Sep 2018 - Nov 2018
Generates simple markdown documentation from Hindley-Milner and optional block comments in JavaScript code.
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 1 month
hindley-milnerjavascriptmarkdown
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