Jimmy Ray
Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJimmy Ray is a Senior Distinguished Engineer with a decade of modern cloud, security, and infrastructure leadership experience, currently driving platform and architecture strategy at Capital One. He has moved between high-impact roles at Boeing and AWS—spanning chief cloud and cybersecurity architect responsibilities to developer advocacy for Kubernetes—demonstrating a rare blend of hands-on systems expertise and enterprise governance. Jimmy’s background includes multiple distinguished engineering and solutions architect positions at Capital One and AWS, plus teaching experience at the university level, which underscores his strength in mentoring and translating complex technical concepts for diverse audiences. Comfortable at the intersection of cloud-native operations, security, and developer experience, he brings practical delivery chops from large-scale enterprise contexts while maintaining a curiosity for tooling and platform evolution. An interesting note: his career path alternates between deep technical delivery and strategic architecture roles, suggesting he thrives both building systems and shaping long-term technical direction.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
AAS Electronic Engineering Technology, AAS Electronic Engineering Technology at ITT Technical InstituteBS CIS, BS CIS at Strayer UniversityMS Management of IT, MS Management of IT at University of Virginia
Github Skills (127)
controller10
cloud-computing10
cost-optimization10
gcp10
security10
gatekeeper10
governance10
attestation10
serverless10
kubernetes-setup10
optimization10
validation10
kubernetes-deployment10
yaml10
management10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
jimmyraywv/jimmyraywv
Mar 2022 - Nov 2024
Contributions:104 pushes in 2 years 8 months
jenkinsci/consul-kv-builder-plugin
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Jenkins plugin to read/write/delete K/V pairs from/to Consul K/V store.
Contributions:54 commits, 3 PRs, 67 pushes in 6 months
jenkinsjenkins-pluginread-writejenkins-api-pluginconsul
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