// SOFTWARE ENGINEER · CAPITAL ONE
Colton
Waldack
I write code for a bank, play a lot of games, and bring a camera when I travel. Auggy & Apollo handle code review.
01 / ABOUT
Hey, I'm Colton.
Here's the short version.
I'm a software engineer at Capital One — four years now, currently a Senior Associate in McLean. I do full-stack work on systems that move documents and account data around. The more formal version is in the resume; the short version is I build things, I test things, and drink a lot of caffeine.
Before that: Marymount University in Arlington, B.S. in Information Technology, class of 2021. Northern Virginia based, been here all my life.
Outside of work I'm probably gaming or working on a side project. My camera comes out whenever there's a trip. Auggy and Apollo (the cats) supervise all of it with zero context and total confidence.
MORE ON THE PHOTOS PAGE
02 / PHOTO BLOG
Recent trips
03 / RESUME
Career, compiled
Full-stack across a document platform and KYC services — React up front; Java, Go, and Python on AWS behind it.
- Built a Python address-verification Lambda from the ground up for an enterprise KYC platform.
- Led the team’s secrets-management migration across 14+ services — done ahead of the enterprise-wide cutoff.
- Leads initiatives in the team’s AI-tooling adoption and mentors interns.
First engineering job out of school — federal consulting, DC area.