Mike Morales

Software Engineering Leader

Role
Director of Software Engineering at Richmond National
Location
Richmond, VA, US
LinkedIn followers
500 followers
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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

  1. Director of Software Engineering

    Richmond National

    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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