Kris Applegate
Senior Distinguished Engineer at Capital One
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorKris Applegate is a Senior Distinguished Engineer based in Austin with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operationalizing storage, cloud, and developer platform solutions. Currently at Capital One, he focuses on removing friction for developers delivering secure, innovative software, drawing on deep technical roots rather than purely managerial work. His career spans technical leadership roles across VMware and Dell EMC where he led productizing efforts (notably bringing Backstage-based offerings to GA) and authored solution whitepapers and reference architectures for big data, Kubernetes, and distributed systems. Known for tackling projects he once thought outside his capabilities, Kris combines relentless technical curiosity with practical execution—from writing PHP/MySQL tooling early in his career to guiding enterprise-grade platform launches. He thrives in roles that let him stay hands‑on while mentoring teams and translating complex tech into deployable, customer-facing solutions. Colleagues describe him as passionately technical, pragmatic, and unusually persistent at turning ambitious ideas into shipped reality.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (13)
historical8
vcenter7
vms7
vmware5
digitalocean4
mechanism3
kubernetes3
updating3
architecture2
cloud-foundry2
pcf2
accelerator1
initialize1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
krisapplegate/docs-tap
Jun 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:69 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
krisapplegate/tap-gui-catalogs
Oct 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:66 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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