Abhishek Mathews
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ASenior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience leading the design and delivery of high-impact systems — specializing in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and full-stack development that has to actually work at scale.
Work Experience
Four postings. 7+ years. Teams in the double digits, systems in the thousands, coffees in the thousands more.
Capital One · McLean, VA, USA
Senior Software Engineer
— Platform & Developer Tools
- 01Led architecting and implementation of high risk issue resolution by creating just-in-time AWS access feature, resulting in fifty percent faster issue resolution time.
- 02Collaborated with team to improve app functionality, leading redesign of Auth and data access and achieving 20% decrease in user complaints.
- 03Implemented compliant database deployments by integrating with internal CI/CD tooling, reducing manual work by 50% and increasing data security.
- 04Released controlled deployment acceleration feature which runs on thousands of developer pipelines to save hundreds of hours and decreasing deployment time by 40%
- 05Overhauled user entitlement access in an internal CLI tooling in order to improve data retrieval/filtering around AWS IAM entitlements, especially for users with thousands of results
- Python
- FastAPI
- AWS Lambda
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS RDS
- Jenkins
- Golang
- Typescript
- Angular
- AWS IAM
- Boto3
- PostgreSQL
- YAML
- React
- Redux
- GraphQL
Extend · USA, Remote
Senior Software Engineer
— Consumer Application
- 01Designed and Released Customer-Facing Portal For Purchased Warranty Experience
- 02Helped design and build authentication flow along with the security team
- 03Built, updated, and maintained key API endpoints used by the application
- 04Brought new engineers up to speed with technology stack, architecture, and deployment patterns
- Typescript
- NodeJS
- AWS Lambda
- AWS SQS
- AWS DynamoDB/Table Streams
- React/Redux
- Chakra UI
- AWS Cognito
- Github Actions
Capital One · McLean, VA, USA
Senior Software Engineer
— Cloud Cost & Compliance
- 01Led refactor and implementation of EC2/ECS off-hours solution that optimized cost for AWS resources across thousands of non-production accounts.
- 02Implemented Cloud Custodian policies and visual emails to drive compliance and cost objectives
- 03Architected Off-Hours solution for database management in order to gain more cloud cost-savings.
- 04Designed and implemented a proof of concept solution to assist developers in producing IAM policies that used least-privilege principles based on their applications usage in non-production environments.
- Python
- AWS Lambda
- AWS DynamoDB
- AWS RDS
- AWS IAM
- Boto3
- Cloud Custodian
- YAML
Cloudreach · Reston, VA, USA
Cloud Systems Developer
— Consulting
- 01Executed Cloud Infrastructure standups for a large Financial Organization
- 02Supported front door tickets and requests to build out one-off resources
- 03Conducted cloud platform auditing using Cloud Custodian policies
Skills & Expertise
The tools of the trade — languages, platforms, and the opinionated software I keep close at hand.
Programming Languages
- 01Python
- 02TypeScript
- 03Java
- 04Golang
Cloud Platforms
- 01Amazon Web Services (AWS)
DevOps Tools
- 01AWS CDK
- 02Terraform
- 03Jenkins
- 04Docker
- 05Kubernetes
Developer Tools
- 01GitHub
- 02Cursor
- 03GitHub Copilot
- 04Claude Code
Databases
- 01DynamoDB
- 02MongoDB
- 03PostgreSQL
- 04MySQL
“Tools should disappear into the work. The work should be what you remember.”
Education
Degrees in the field, plus a short ledger of credentials earned in the long shadow of cloud computing.
MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA, USA
BS in Computer Science
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA, USA