Roland Krocin
Cloud Engineering & Platform Leader | AWS | PaaS | Cyber | SRE | DevSecOps | Infrastructure Modernization in Highly Regulated Environments | Builder of High Performing Teams
- Role
- Director, Platform Engineering at Capital One
- Location
- Chicago, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Roland Krocin
Technology leader specializing in enterprise cloud and application platforms, infrastructure, internal developer platforms (IDPs), and large-scale engineering transformation within secure, highly regulated financial environments. Proven track record of coaching and mentoring people in large global engineering organizations, building, securing and running platform products used by 15K+ internal developers, and managing $50M+ infrastructure portfolios. Thought leader in platform engineering, developer productivity, reliability engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, and AI-enabled engineering platforms, driving measurable improvements in security, compliance, time-to-market, operational resilience, and engineering efficiency. I do my best work where there is a challenge that spans people, technology, and organizational transformation. Core Expertise- People coaching and development- Process & Organization Transformation (Project-to-Product)- Secure Cloud Platforms (AWS / Hybrid Cloud)- Secure Application Platforms (PaaS, CaaS)- Infrastructure Automation (IaaS)- AI-Enabled Developer Platforms (RAG, Knowledge Systems)- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)- Developer Experience & Productivity (DevEx)- Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs)- Risk Management & FinOps- Financial Services Regulatory Compliance
Experience
Director, Platform Engineering
May 2025 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Discover acquired by Capital One; continued platform leadership for Technology Academy IDP.
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering
1992 — 1996
Illinois Institute of Technology
MS, Computer Engineering
1996 — 1998
Skills
- Business Intelligence
- IT Strategy
- Strategy
- Performance Tuning
- Databases
- Websphere Application Server
- Infrastructure
- Integration
- Systems Engineering
- Agile Methodologies
- IT Infrastructure Management
- Cloud Computing Iaas
- Management
- Program Management
- System Architecture
- IT Operations
- Devops
- Governance
- Middleware
- Consulting
- Db2
- Iaas
- Software Project Management
- Vendor Management
- Project Management
- Oracle
- Requirements Analysis
- Cloud Computing
- Websphere
- Enterprise Software
- Enterprise Architecture
- System Automation
- Engineering
- Sdlc
- Solution Architecture
- Infrastructure Planning
- High Availability
- Process Improvement
- Business Analysis
- Vmware Infrastructure
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