Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Rob Petri

Building products at scale for Capital One's travel ecosystem — from airport lounges to an app that hit #1 on the App Store.

What I've Built at Capital One

9+ years at Capital One building consumer-facing products that reach tens of millions of customers.

Launched Sep 2024 – Present

Capital One Travel App

#1
App Store Top Free Apps
Above ChatGPT (#2) and Claude by Anthropic (#3) at launch
App Store screenshot — Capital One Travel #1 Top Free App

Led a 40-person cross-functional team building Capital One's net-new standalone travel app from inception through its March 2026 launch. A full travel ecosystem: flights, hotels, rental cars, activities, and vacation packages, with miles redemption woven throughout and native features that set it apart.

  • Full funnels: flights, hotels, cars, activities, packages
  • Native lounge waitlist — join remotely, no physical queue
  • Live flight alerts, gate changes, real-time lounge capacity
  • Hybrid native + WebView architecture across a multi-supplier ecosystem
iOS Android Python AWS Microservices
Travel Jan 2022 – Jun 2024

Capital One Airport Lounges

Led engineering teams supporting Capital One's premium airport lounge platform through a period of rapid expansion — new lounge openings, major service rewrites, and reliability improvements at scale.

  • Led teams through IAD Dulles and DCA lounge openings
  • Drove a major rewrite of core platform services
  • Joint debugging session uncovered a nightly job bug causing 60-min runtimes; team resolved it to <5 min
  • Real-time capacity and waitlist systems for Venture X cardholders
iOS Python AWS DynamoDB
Fintech Jun 2019 – Jan 2022

Capital One Mobile Banking

Led multiple engineering teams (~20 engineers total) delivering features on Capital One's flagship banking app — 10M+ active users and ranked #1 by J.D. Power.

  • Led iOS, Android, and Java teams across feature delivery and platform work
  • Release engineering lead for 20+ releases with 100+ AWS deployments annually
  • Educated 100+ engineers on orchestration and microservices architecture
iOS Android Java AWS Microservices

Engineering Leadership
at Consumer Scale

I'm a Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Capital One, based in Alexandria, VA. I specialize in building and shipping consumer-facing products that reach millions of users — from mobile banking to travel.

My background spans full-stack engineering (Java, Swift, JavaScript), distributed systems, and AWS infrastructure, which lets me stay close to the technical work while managing cross-functional teams. I care about reliability, developer culture, and shipping things that actually matter to customers.

Before Capital One's travel org, I spent years building the mobile banking platform that powers the flagship Capital One app — used by over 10 million customers and ranked #1 by J.D. Power. I'm a UVA Computer Science grad and a lifelong builder.

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9+
Years at Capital One
#1
App Store at Travel App launch
10M+
Users on mobile banking platform
40
Person team on Travel App