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Rob Petri
Senior Manager, Software Engineering
Alexandria, VA hello@robpetri.com (757) 620-1611 linkedin.com/in/robert-petri-148080ab robpetri.com
Summary

Software engineering leader with 9+ years delivering fintech and travel products at consumer scale. Built and shipped Capital One's standalone Travel App (March 2026, #1 App Store), the Airport Lounge digital platform, and mobile banking features serving 10M+ users. Experienced managing cross-functional engineering teams, driving architecture decisions, and maintaining high-reliability systems in a fast-moving product environment.

Technical Skills
Languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Swift, Node.js
AWS: S3, CloudFront, ECS, EC2, Lambda, DynamoDB, IAM, Route53
Frameworks: Spring MVC, React, Bootstrap
Databases: DynamoDB, MongoDB, MySQL
Mobile: iOS (Swift), Android
Other: Microservices, Docker, ECS Fargate, Agile/SAFe
Professional Experience
Senior Manager, Software Engineering · Capital One
Aug 2023 – Present
McLean, VA
Capital One Travel App  ·  Sep 2024 – Present
  • Scaled engineering team from 6 FTEs to 40+ by onboarding 10 contract engineers to full productivity within weeks, then built out a US/Canada team — including hiring the team's first international team lead — shipping the app from inception to its March 2026 launch and reaching #1 on the App Store Overall chart.
  • Delivered full booking funnels for flights, hotels, rental cars, activities, and vacation packages, with miles redemption integrated across every category.
  • Architected a hybrid native iOS/Android + WebView approach, enabling rapid iteration while maintaining a cohesive UX across a complex, multi-supplier ecosystem.
  • Led the Go-to-Market readiness review — partnering with legal on formal risk assessment — achieving zero critical or high findings at launch.
  • Defined technical strategy directly to VP+ leadership, including stepping in to brief senior leadership on system architecture during a manager's absence.
  • Mentored 8+ engineers and engineering managers on performance management; drove early adoption of shared tooling inventory, resolving a recurring bottleneck across two engineering orgs.
Airport Lounges  ·  through Jun 2024
  • Led engineering through the IAD Dulles (Sep 2023) and DCA lounge openings, coordinating cross-functional delivery across mobile and backend.
  • Led team effort that reduced lounge benefit provisioning time from 3 days to under 1 day through automated instant-issuance in the account-opening flow.
  • Guided a major service rewrite effort, modernizing core lounge platform services for reliability and scale.
  • Led joint debugging session that uncovered a critical nightly batch job running 60+ minutes; team resolved the root-cause bug, bringing runtime back to under 5 minutes.
Manager, Software Engineering · Capital One
Jan 2022 – Aug 2023
McLean, VA · Airport Lounges
  • Led engineering teams for Capital One's Airport Lounge platform — lounge discovery, digital access verification, real-time capacity and waitlist systems.
  • Managed iOS and backend engineering teams, mentoring engineers and driving technical roadmap alongside product partners.
  • Established blameless incident review practices and a standing incident-response rotation across a multi-team organization, personally participating to model the standard.
  • Coordinated cross-team resolution of a cloud infrastructure security violation before it escalated to a formal compliance review.
  • Launched an org-wide AWS certification study group; 15+ engineers achieved AWS certifications as a result.
Principal Associate / Team Lead · Capital One
Jun 2019 – Jan 2022
McLean, VA · Mobile Banking
  • Led iOS, Android, and Java teams delivering features for Capital One's flagship banking app — 10M+ active users, ranked #1 by J.D. Power.
  • Served as release engineering lead for 20+ releases with 100+ AWS deployments annually.
  • Educated 100+ Capital One iOS engineers on orchestration and microservices architecture.
  • Resolved critical security vulnerabilities in Java microservices identified through code analysis tooling; verified as merge approver for secure coding compliance.
Senior Associate · Capital One
Jun 2018 – Jun 2019
McLean, VA · Mobile Edge Engineering
  • Contributed as engineer on the Mobile Edge team supporting Capital One's flagship banking app in the orchestration and microservices layer.
Developer Professional · Freddie Mac
Oct 2017 – May 2018
McLean, VA
  • Decomposed monolithic Condo Project Advisor into microservices; implemented MongoDB indexing and address scrubbing to improve performance and data quality.
Consultant · CapTech Ventures
Mar 2017 – Oct 2017
Reston, VA
  • Developed RESTful API enhancements for a financial services client serving multiple front-end systems.
Developer Associate · Freddie Mac
Jun 2015 – Mar 2017
McLean, VA
  • Built Condo Project Advisor (Spring MVC) — a new application granting waivers for ineligible condos, bringing liquidity to the mortgage market.
  • Coordinated with VP-level stakeholders at industry partners to resolve production defects; recognized with the Above and Beyond Award (Feb 2017).
Education
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Arts, Computer Science
Charlottesville, VA  ·  May 2015