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According to Senior Lead Engineer Alexander, working at Capital One is different from what people might expect. Rather than spend his days crunching numbers and analyzing market trends, Alexander stays busy “solving really cool puzzles with really smart people” — a role he considers a “tremendous privilege” to hold. He said his day-to-day work revolves around maintaining the tools and infrastructure tied to one of the company’s enterprise AI/ML platforms, which serves as a foundation for wider tech initiatives. “It lets our data scientists really hit the ground running and start delivering value at a much faster rate,” Alexander explained.
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For Alexander, it feels as if he and his peers get to work on a startup-style product without the firefighting culture that comes with a smaller company. This allows for a longer product development runway and more thoughtful approach to decision-making. Leaning on this stability and strategy, Alexander and his peers get to keep up with the industry’s latest technologies.
“We’re continuously expanding,” he said. “Whenever there’s something new and exciting and cool that comes out, we look into how we and our end users can benefit from it.”
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Senior Engineering Manager Ryan said that the latest iteration of the company's platform could be seen as “a conglomerate of a lot of efforts” geared toward seeking solutions that work for everyone, including the company’s customers.
Defined by versatility, the platform has become a cornerstone for Capital One’s largest tech undertakings, keeping the organization at the forefront of the industry’s latest advancements.
“Taking an enterprise platform approach in this way has set us up to be prepared to build and deploy emerging AI capabilities, including in generative AI," Ryan noted. “It’s an extension of the foundation that we already built, so it works well in terms of its robustness and its ability to adapt to the company’s needs.”
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At a glance
industry-standard tools
The company's tech stack includes industry-standard tools such as Kubeflow, Apache Spark, PyTorch and Argo.
an open source approach
The company's technologists embrace an open source approach to product and technology development, which allows them to leverage existing tools and build skills they can carry with them across the company and elsewhere.
strategic, not reactionary
Capital One has a well-defined technological vision and strategy that remains open to exploring new tools and technologies as the landscape evolves.
