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10 Capital One engineering leaders
These ten people lead engineering at Capital One, including chief technology officers of Capital One divisions and business lines and managing vice presidents and vice presidents of engineering and cloud platforms. A reader can learn how Capital One organizes technology by business line, runs cloud and reliability engineering and builds software products.
Professionals to explore
01—10Carlos Kirk
LinkedInExperience: VP, Technology & CTO Bank Modernization & Core Processing · Capital One
VP, Technology & CTO Bank Modernization & Core Processing at Capital One since June 2022, directing a 350+ person global organization across software engineering, data engineering and product, according to the profile. Carlos Kirk was previously Senior Engineering Manager at Apple (2020–2022) and Senior Manager of Software Engineering (Amazon Payments) at Amazon (2017–2020).
Desikan Madhavanur
LinkedInExperience: Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer · Capital One
Chief Product Officer, Chief Technology Officer at Capital One since November 2022, a C-level role according to the profile. Desikan Madhavanur was previously Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Blue Yonder (2017–2022) and Senior Vice President, Enterprise Products at CA Technologies (2013–2017).
Howard Dierking
LinkedInExperience: Managing Vice President CTO, Originations · Capital One
Managing Vice President CTO, Originations at Capital One since July 2025, and former Managing Vice President CTO, Loan Servicing at Capital One (2024–2025). Howard Dierking was also SVP Platform Chief Architect at Olive (2021–2023) and Vice President Of Engineering at Olive (2021).
Indu Jain
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, CTO, Capital One Sales · Capital One
Vice President, CTO, Capital One Sales at Capital One since August 2025; the profile describes Indu Jain as Head of Technology for the Capital One Dealer Auto business. Former Vice President, CTO, Dealer Originations (2023–2025) and CTO, Auto Refinance (2019–2023) at Capital One.
Jeff Ludwig
LinkedInExperience: Managing Vice President, CTO - Risk · Capital One
Managing Vice President, CTO - Risk at Capital One since January 2022, a C-level role in the engineering and technical department according to the profile. Jeff Ludwig was previously Vice President, PlayStation Network Engineering & Operations at Sony Interactive Entertainment (2014–2021) and Director of Engineering, Consumer Tax Group Services & Data Platform at Intuit (2012–2014).
Kamlesh Talreja
LinkedInExperience: Chief Technology Officer , SVP, Financial Services · Capital One
Chief Technology Officer, SVP, Financial Services at Capital One since May 2023; the profile describes the role as SVP and CTO of the Capital One Financial Services Division, working on digital and AI experiences for Capital One Auto customers. Kamlesh Talreja was also Co-Head of Engineering, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (2021–2023) and a General Manager at AWS (2016–2021).
Nick Litombe
LinkedInExperience: Managing Vice President, Engineering · Capital One
Managing Vice President, Engineering at Capital One since December 2025, leading the engineering organization responsible for Capital One's enterprise-scale marketing and customer messaging platforms. Nick Litombe was previously Head of LLM GenAI Research and Application, Microsoft Gray Systems Lab at Microsoft (2024–2025).
Parvez Naqvi
LinkedInExperience: Managing Vice President, Cloud Platforms, Resilience Engineering and Enterprise Architecture · Capital One
Managing Vice President, Cloud Platforms, Resilience Engineering and Enterprise Architecture at Capital One since January 2026; the profile says Parvez Naqvi leads ~1,000 engineers and a ~$500M+ budget behind Capital One's cloud platforms and reliability. Also Managing Vice President, Resilience and Reliability Engineering & Enterprise Architecture (2024–2026).
Robin Mathews
LinkedInExperience: Managing Vice President & Chief Technology Officer · Capital One
Managing Vice President & Chief Technology Officer at Capital One since March 2022, described in the profile as CTO for the Auto Loan Servicing line of business and head of the Garage (Innovation Lab), with work on generative AI. Robin Mathews was previously Vice President, Technology at Expedia Group (2020–2022) and Sr. Director, Technology at Expedia Group (2013–2020).
Salim Syed
LinkedInExperience: VP, Head of Engineering, Capital One Software · Capital One
VP, Head of Engineering, Capital One Software since January 2022; the profile says Salim Syed founded the Capital One Slingshot product, a B2B SaaS business for cloud and data management, and is responsible for Capital One Software architecture, AI/ML and software engineering. Previously Senior Director, Data Engineering at Capital One (2020–2022).
Choose the right perspective
Pick the person whose scope matches your question, since a business-line CTO knows how technology supports one lending or servicing business while a platform leader knows shared cloud, reliability and architecture work. Leaders of software products and engineering organizations can speak to building and staffing teams, while divisional CTOs can speak to priorities and budgets.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does Capital One split engineering ownership between business-line CTOs and shared platform teams?
- 02How does a bank run cloud platforms and resilience engineering to the standard regulators expect?
- 03What has worked when bringing generative AI into engineering teams and customer-facing systems at Capital One?
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