Arun Kumar

Ashburn, Virginia

Arun Kumar

Lead Software Engineer

I build cloud-native platforms and migrate enterprise systems to serverless. I'm currently at Capital One, where I lead work on a platform used by about a million people a day.

Arun Kumar
~1M daily users on platforms I architect
80% infrastructure cost removed by migrating to serverless
30k+ TPS sustained across services I maintain
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

Selected projects

Products I've shipped.

Training Portal

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Independent · in production for a ~2,000-employee company

A multi-tenant training and attestation platform running on a customer's own Azure tenant, where roughly 2,000 employees use it to meet the company's compliance obligations and as their year-round training resource. Staff complete mandatory courses in their own language and sign a disclosure questionnaire. Administrators assign training to directory groups, set due dates, and send automated reminders.

  • Runs on the customer's Azure tenant: Static Web Apps, Functions, Cosmos DB and Blob Storage
  • Course delivery in five languages, including right-to-left layout for Arabic
  • Signed attestations with conflict-of-interest disclosures, flagged for review
  • Assignment workflows driven by Entra ID groups, with scheduled reminder emails
  • Admin dashboard for completion rates, exception tracking and audit export
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Azure Functions
  • Cosmos DB
  • Microsoft Graph
  • Tailwind
Open live demo

Demo runs on sample data. Sign in with either demo account. Password available on request.

Digital Coffee on Us

Live

Capital One Cafés · runs seasonally

A recurring free drink promotion at Capital One Cafés. Customers enter a phone number, receive a wallet pass by text, and scan its QR code at the counter. No Capital One account or card is required.

  • Built the serverless coupon platform behind the offer, wired into Salesforce marketing workflows
  • Added vendor cost validation so redemptions reconcile against spend automatically
  • Passes issue to Apple Wallet and Google Wallet, and redeem by QR in the Café
  • AWS Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • S3
  • Salesforce

Money & Life

Live

Capital One · launched September 2021

Capital One's free financial wellness program, open to anyone in the US whether or not they bank there. Self-guided exercises cover spending habits and goal setting. No account is required, and no products are sold.

  • Built the serverless platform behind the exercises, supporting thousands of daily users
  • Exercises such as Map Your Spend and Goals Planner take five to ten minutes on phone, tablet or desktop
  • Extended the Café-based coaching program into a digital product available nationwide
  • React
  • Node.js
  • TypeScript
  • AWS Lambda

Money Mentoring

Live

Capital One Cafés · now part of Money & Life

Free one-to-one sessions in Capital One Cafés. Mentors work through guided exercises with clients rather than giving financial advice or selling products. It launched as Money Coaching and was renamed a few years later, which is why earlier press still uses the old name.

  • Built the native iPad app mentors use in session, including Apple Pencil support
  • In-session exercises include Clear Your Path, Chart Your Values and Looking at Your Future
  • Covered by Upworthy
  • Swift
  • iPadOS
  • Apple Pencil
Book a session

Sessions are free and open to anyone. Booking one is the easiest way to see the iPad exercises firsthand.

Experience

Capital One

McLean, VA · 2017 – Present

Lead Software Engineer

Jan 2023 – Present
  • Architected the Angular onboarding experience for a platform serving roughly 1M daily users, holding latency under 325 ms while scaling distributed workflows.
  • Led migration from Java on Fargate to Go and Python on Lambda, cutting infrastructure cost 80% and removing runtime-image maintenance entirely.
  • Defined SLOs and SLIs and built observability on Splunk, New Relic and PagerDuty, with zero high-severity incidents since.
  • Designed the serverless coupon platform (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3) wired into Salesforce behind Digital Coffee on Us, enabling vendor cost validation and new marketing capability.
  • Maintain multiple 30k+ TPS Java services rendering customer messaging across mobile and web.
  • Shipped Optimizely-based feature flagging and phased rollouts, supporting Discover customer onboarding.
  • Raised engineering productivity 50% by automating repetitive work with AI-assisted tooling.
  • Manage a team of four, mentor three engineers a year, train 100+ engineers annually on AWS, and run 30+ technical interviews a year.

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Jan 2023
  • Built the serverless platform behind Money & Life on React, Node.js and Lambda, serving thousands of users daily.
  • Engineered point-of-sale integrations enabling order-ahead, real-time analytics and loyalty features.
  • Delivered an enterprise Wi-Fi portal across 50+ Café locations and every retail branch.

Software Engineer

Jan 2019 – Jul 2020
  • Built the native iPad app in Swift behind Money Mentoring, with Apple Pencil support.
  • Modernized a legacy EC2/RDS/Clojure stack to Lambda and API Gateway, cutting cost ~80% and tightening security posture.
  • Led three engineers delivering a third-party booking integration.

Associate Software Engineer

Jul 2017 – Jan 2019
  • Replaced SnapLogic with Pentaho ETL pipelines on AWS, eliminating $5M in vendor cost within four months.
  • Executed large-scale data migrations during the E*TRADE acquisition, preserving integrity across thousands of accounts.

Dell Technologies

Round Rock, TX · 2015 – 2016

Software Engineering Intern

May 2015 – Aug 2016
  • Built Universal Windows Platform apps in C# deployed to 200k+ enterprise machines.

Skills

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • Go
  • Swift
  • C++

Cloud & infrastructure

  • AWS Lambda
  • Fargate
  • DynamoDB
  • S3
  • Route 53
  • Terraform
  • Docker
  • CI/CD
  • Jenkins

Frameworks & tooling

  • React
  • Angular
  • Node.js
  • Splunk
  • New Relic
  • PagerDuty
  • Git

Education

M.Eng. Cybersecurity

University of Maryland, College Park · Conferred May 2026

Graduate Certificate, Software Engineering

B.S. Computer Science

Pennsylvania State University · May 2017

Certificate, Smeal College of Business Fundamentals

Certifications

AWS Solutions Architect – Professional

Nov 2024

AWS SysOps Administrator – Associate

Jan 2018

AWS Developer – Associate

Dec 2017

Contact

Happy to talk about platform engineering, serverless migration, or the training portal above.