Mike Morales
Software Engineering Leader
- Role
- Director of Software Engineering at Richmond National
- Location
- Richmond, VA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Mike Morales
I am a highly analytical, innovative, and decisive software engineering leader with 10+ years of progressive leadership experience directing software development / engineering, project management, and product development within one of the largest banks in the U.S. As a strategic and resourceful problem solver, I possess an innate ability to blend technical and people leadership to grow Software Engineers within team and provide high quality technical results. I thrive as an effective communicator with success accelerating people / career development, identity / access management initiatives, and cloud migrations coordinating multiple cross-functional teams within diverse fast-paced environments.Career Highlights:* Successfully led the transformation of Capital One\'s infrastructure by migrating 250+ applications from on-premises data centers to the Cloud. Assembled a team of 4 skilled Engineers, providing expert consultation to the Application team for Cloud deployment best practices. Remarkably, achieved the seamless migration of all applications to the Cloud within just one year, setting a precedent as the first tower within the company to accomplish this task.*Successfully built and supported a crucial SOX and Business critical application securing human AWS console access, efficiently providing just-in-time (JIT) attribute based access to over logins daily. Notably, the application received exceptional feedback from users, reflected in an impressive Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 57. Through this project, I played a critical role in enhancing security measures and ensuring seamless access to AWS resources, contributing to the overall success and efficiency of the organization\'s tech transformation.*Established team of leads to support migration to new cloud standards with multiple change notifications. Grew and evolved team to formalized tower within organization driving compliance and resulting in 80%+ violation drop in 6-months of implementation.Specialties:Leadership & Team Building • Customer Experience & Engineering Excellence • Roadmap Development •Vendor Relations & Negotiations • Agile Methodologies & Cloud Computing • Budgeting & Forecasting •Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) • Code Quality & Scalability •JavaScript, SQL, & Python • Full Lifecycle Project Management • Product Development
Experience
Director of Software Engineering
Jan 2026 — Present · Richmond, VA, US
I am the Head of Software Engineering for Richmond National, leading the team of engineers to drive value for our partners
Education
James Madison University
Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Computer Information Systems
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