Jonathan Polansky

Jonathan Polansky

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Director, Backend and DevOps
California, United States

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  • Hatch
    Director, Backend and DevOps
    Hatch
    May 2026 - Current (3 months)
  • Hatch
    Principal DevOps Engineer
    Hatch
    Sep 2025 - May 2026 (9 months)
  • Capital One
    Director Software Engineering
    Capital One
    Jan 2021 - Mar 2025 (4 years 3 months)
    • Drove the Platform Engineering group, establishing and enforcing pivotal standards and best practices across AWS Cloud Infrastructure and service utilization, CI/CD approaches, deployment patterns, and comprehensive logging/monitoring/alerting frameworks, ensuring the stability and operational excellence of the core financial platform. • Led leaders in architecting and developing major microservice components of a modern, API-based Core Banking System, establishing the target financial system of record for account balances at Capital One. Optimized data integrity, fault tolerance, and high-availability for real-time financial operations. • Directed a 30+ engineer organization, driving program execution and strategic delivery while collab
  • Capital One
    Senior Manager Software Engineering
    Capital One
    Mar 2017 - Jan 2021 (3 years 11 months)
    • Coordinated software engineers developing key components of a modern Core Banking System, including core infrastructure, Ledger, and financial product logic, ensuring scalability, reliability, and compliance with financial regulations. Guided engineers' professional development and promoted workplace happiness. • Delivered MVP functionality and collaborated with product to lead the green field development of a system of record Ledger for Capital One, including a major refactor of the Ledger data model. • Proposed, executed, and migrated all department CI/CD pipelines to an enterprise standard solution, achieving 100% migration within 3 months and contributing reusable Scala-based pipelines company-wide.
  • Capital One
    DevOps Engineer
    Capital One
    Mar 2014 - Mar 2017 (3 years 1 month)
    • Led the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) for Capital One Labs' bare metal and cloud infrastructure, ensuring secure, scalable, and high-performance environments to support innovative financial technology solutions, including back-end services for the Capital One Apple Pay launch. • Coordinated system provisioning, managing infrastructure setup, resource allocation, and configuration processes, optimizing deployment efficiency and system reliability across cloud and on-prem environments. • Oversaw CI/CD pipelines and production deployments, implementing automation, monitoring, and risk mitigation strategies, while managing 24/7 on-call support to ensure high availability and rapid incident resolution.
  • BabyCenter
    System Administrator
    BabyCenter
    May 2006 - Mar 2014 (7 years 11 months)
    • Managed and maintained the daily operations of BabyCenter's data center infrastructure, overseeing system performance, security, and reliability to support nearly 1 billion page views per month with minimal downtime. • Led a team of three engineers, ensuring efficient workload distribution, incident response, and proactive system maintenance, optimizing infrastructure performance and operational stability. • Ensured all systems and services met or exceeded SLAs, implementing monitoring, automation, and redundancy strategies to enhance uptime, scalability, and service continuity for a high-traffic digital platform.
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  • UCLA
    Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
    UCLA
  • University of California Los Angeles
    Bachelors of Science, Computer Science
    University of California Los Angeles
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