hey-sunglassesQuin Carter
Quin CarterLead Software Engineer at Capital OneDeveloper Experience · Frontend Architecture · SpeakerGreater Richmond Region, VAquin.carter@gmail.comlinkedin.com/in/quincarterquincarter.comgithub.com/quincarterSummary

Lead Software Engineer at Capital One with a track record of leading teams across multiple lines of business — from Financial Services, to standing up a brand-new team and architecture practice in Card Tech (adopted enterprise-wide as ASPIRE), to my current work in Developer Experience. I now build the standards Capital One writes software against: language tooling, DevContainers, and Standard Development Environments, serving as the JavaScript/TypeScript tech lead for our language excellence organization alongside counterparts in Python, Go, and Java. My background is deep in frontend architecture — Lit Element, Angular, React, Vue, and micro-frontends — including being the first engineer at Capital One to ship WebAssembly and Web Workers in a customer-facing production frontend. I care deeply about application architecture: a system that isn't planned properly becomes a system nobody can maintain.

ExperienceLead Software Engineer — Developer ExperienceCapital OneJuly 2026 – PresentRichmond, VA
  • Building standards for development at Capital One — language tooling, DevContainers, and Standard Development Environments — within Developer Experience / Collaborative Code Foundations / EP Tech.
  • Serve as the JavaScript/TypeScript tech lead for the language excellence organization, working alongside counterparts covering Python, Go, and Java.
Lead Software Engineer — Card Tech ArchitectureCapital OneMay 2024 – July 2026Richmond, VA
  • Led a brand-new team built from the ground up, standing up both the team and its architectural practice from nothing.
  • Built ASPIRE, an in-house architecture framework the enterprise adopted to guide engineering leaders and their teams toward sound software architecture.
  • Shipped the ASPIRE dashboard application — leaders drill through per-team and per-app architecture "scores" — first as an Astro + React app, later converted to a Tanstack Router + React SPA.
  • Built data pipelines, AI tooling, and a Node.js backend for ASPIRE, migrating rule enforcement onto Open Policy Agent (OPA) with Rego policies.
Lead Software Engineer — Financial ServicesCapital OneJuly 2023 – May 2024Plano, TX
  • Re-architected Developer Navigator from a hand-rolled HTMLElement shell loading outdated, copy-pasted-and-built Angular micro-frontends into a fully innersourced platform any team at Capital One could contribute a micro-frontend to.
  • Built the Lit Element app shell driving the core Developer Navigator experience, and led the core team that defined the platform's governance model.
  • Cultivated a thriving frontend development team of 15+ engineers building a cohesive, enjoyable developer experience around the platform.
  • Led design reviews and reviewed thousands of PRs, holding a highly visible, org-wide product to a quality-over-quantity bar.
Principal Software EngineerCapital OneJuly 2019 – July 2023Plano, TX
  • Led frontend engineering for auto refinance, building the internal Angular application agents use to fund refi loans (the "one-agent" platform).
  • Mentored engineers and partnered directly with Experience Design and Product Management to ship agent-facing experiences.
  • Built and owned the shared component library used by that application and its surrounding micro-frontends — the single source of truth every developer on the team built against.
  • First engineer at Capital One to ship WebAssembly + Web Workers in a customer-facing production frontend.
  • Organized and hosted the internal Refi Hackathon — 40+ patents produced in the last year alone; submitted 4 patents personally, with one successfully filed with the US Patent Office, and several hackathon innovations shipped to production.
  • Hosted internal dev talks to audiences of 200+ on WebAssembly, Web/Service Workers, Lighthouse performance analysis, CSS Grid vs. Flexbox, Lit Element, Storybook, Ionic, Angular, React, Jasmine/Jest, Cypress, and Gitflow branching strategy.
Host / Content CreatorCode and Coffee PodcastSept 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Co-hosted a podcast with two colleagues, bringing 20+ combined years of software engineering experience to conversations on coding practices, interview prep, and career development.
Senior Software EngineerHilti North AmericaApril 2018 – July 2019Plano, TX
  • Resolved major Angular 5 performance bottlenecks ahead of an Angular 7 migration, cutting load time from 15s to under 1s by restructuring asset packaging.
  • Built a new Angular 7 frontend from Design Team specs, backed by new Node/Express/GraphQL and Java 8 (Play Framework, exploring Spring Boot) microservices.
  • Implemented Angular Universal server-side rendering in Docker for faster, more efficient delivery.
  • Developed and refactored APIs for both the legacy Laravel frontend and the new Angular 7 frontend, standardizing responses with Fractal against the jsonapi.org spec.
  • Rebuilt the site's visual language with SCSS/LESS and a new card-based design system, moving it off a flat, minimal look.
Senior Laravel/Vue Engineer (Consultant)RainWise, Inc. / PowerWise SystemsMarch 2018 – April 2018Trenton, ME
  • Built a new frontend with Vue.js and Laravel using Semantic UI and BEM, redesigning multiple site sections for mobile and cross-device use from the ground up.
Senior Software EngineerStack SportsJune 2017 – March 2018Frisco, TX
  • Owned the tournaments application handling payments and registration for basketball, football, volleyball, and soccer leagues.
  • Rebuilt a legacy Laravel core, dockerized and namespaced the app, and added PHPUnit coverage to tame years of technical debt.
  • Stood up GitLab CI/CD so the legacy app's deploys gated on passing tests.
  • Built a new tournament scheduler API in Node/Express with Sequelize + MySQL.
  • Migrated the legacy PHP app toward a stable Laravel core with a new Angular 5 frontend, running everything in Docker.
  • Onboarded and managed engineers on-site and remote as the point of contact for tournaments and payments.
Skills
LanguagesJavaScriptTypeScriptJavaPythonGoPHPC++Objective-CFrontendLit ElementWeb ComponentsAngularReactVueAstroTanstack RouterWebAssembly (WASM)Web Workers / Service WorkersTailwind CSSSCSS / LESSBackend & APIsNode.js / ExpressGraphQLJava / Spring BootPlay FrameworkLaravelCross-PlatformReact NativeIonicVue NativePractices & ToolingMicro-frontendsDevContainersStandard Development EnvironmentsOpen Policy Agent (OPA) / RegoCI/CD (Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI)GitflowDockerStorybookJasmine / JestCypress
Earlier ExperienceLewisville ISDSoftware Engineer LeadJuly 2014 – June 2017Built RESTful APIs and full-stack tools on Laravel, Lumen, and Slim across IIS/MSSQL/MySQL; shipped Angular 2/4 apps, SSRS/SSIS reporting, and custom Java/Objective-C/C++ tools for the district.Microsoft (Xbox Division)Quality Assurance Analyst → Level 3 Technical SupportJuly 2013 – July 2014Audited agent quality and support standards for Xbox/Microsoft Account issues; served as last line of support for fraud, unauthorized access, and account escalations.Cash Register Services, Inc.Help Desk SupportMay 2010 – June 2013Tier 1/2 support for POS software and hardware (ISS45, IBM 4690) and Retalix fuel systems; rebuilt Windows and IBM servers from the ground up.Speaking & Publications

Regular speaker at Capital One's internal Frontend Community (2+ talks a year since joining) and large-scale internal forums like Async Live and SECON, plus external conferences and meetups.

Capital One Async Live · RVA.js MeetupBuilding Apps with Lit Element in 2026April & August 2026App shell architecture, routing, dependency injection, async state, and signals for real Lit applications.Capital One Frontend CommunityExpressing Yourself with CSS in 2026February 2026RVA.js MeetupWebAssembly (WASM)June 2025RVA.js Conference (Richmond) · Capital One Async Live · SECON · Frontend CommunityThe State of Workers in 20252025Given 4 times in 2025, originating as an external talk at RVA.js Conference before three internal deliveries.

Numerous technical articles on quincarter.com and on Medium (@quincarter).

Honors & Awards
  • Run the Engine Award
  • Refi Giant Award
  • TechX Finalist
  • Mark of Distinction (x2)
EducationB.S., Computer and Information Systems Security / Information AssuranceDeVry University2014 – 2017

Updated September 2026

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