Summary
Nick Capurso is a Director of Engineering based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area with 11 years of hands-on software experience and five years leading mobile engineering teams. He currently oversees cross-functional Android and iOS teams at Capital One that run identity experiences serving 10M+ daily active users, having led critical migrations, reusable SDK development, and cross-org integrations that cut new app bootstrapping from a year to a few months. A former Android engineer and adjunct professor, he blends deep technical craft—security signal frameworks, root-detection research, high-test-coverage SDKs—with strong people leadership, consistently achieving top morale and manager satisfaction. He’s pragmatic about trade-offs, skilled at translating security and product needs into resilient mobile architectures, and has a track record of mentoring interns and shaping curriculum to scale engineering knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at The George Washington University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Texas Christian University