Summary
Val Komarov is a Distinguished Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable, maintainable software and shipping complex products on schedule across fintech and security domains. He blends deep systems and DevOps expertise—Python, Ansible, Jenkins, Terraform, and Java—with hands-on experience designing CI/CD pipelines, blue/green deployments, and operational tools for large-scale data platforms. At Capital One he led DevOps for Big Data products and created reusable automation libraries and a MongoDB migration/failover toolkit; more recently he progressed through senior and principal engineering roles at DivvyCloud and Rapid7 before joining Heeler. Val is comfortable moving between product-facing development and infrastructure automation, and he favors pragmatic, auditable solutions that reduce operational risk. Based in Virginia, he pairs a Virginia Tech computer science foundation with a track record of turning complex requirements into production-ready systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science w/ Math Minor, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science w/ Math Minor at Virginia Tech