Chienyi Cheri Hung
Engineering executive and hands-on strategist who scales intentionally innovative teams and the high-impact platforms behind them. I lead multi-team groups across the entire stack—from high-throughput distributed systems and ML pipelines to modern front-ends.
I thrive at the intersection of technical strategy and deliberate culture-building, ensuring my organizations stay agile, aligned, and technically excellent.
Currently focused on scaling distributed architecture for products serving millions of users, while leveraging AI and agentic workflows to optimize all aspects of the SDLC.
Skills
Leadership: Organizational Leadership, Organizational Efficiency, Technical Strategy, Team Building, Agile Development
AI/ML: Amazon Bedrock, Amazon SageMaker, LLMs & Agentic Workflows (MCP), RAG, ML Pipelines, AI-assisted SDLC
Architecture: Distributed Systems, Event-Driven Architecture (Kafka), Data Engineering, Scalability
Languages & Frameworks: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, React, Node.js, GraphQL
Platforms & Data: AWS, Docker, Cassandra, SQL, ElasticSearch/OpenSearch
Related Experience
Capital One — Senior Director of Software Engineering, Shopping
Aug 2025 - Present | New York CityProvide technical, strategic, and organizational leadership to deliver highly scalable, customer-facing applications serving millions of users. Drive the long-term architectural roadmap, collaborating with product and business leaders to align technology initiatives with key company objectives for growth and market expansion.
Capital One — Director of Software Engineering, Shopping
Feb 2023 - Aug 2025 | New York CityDirected the technology space behind Capital One Shopping's Price Comparison features. Provided technical and strategic leadership to full-stack teams delivering large-scale and highly efficient customer-facing applications.
Capital One — Senior Manager/Tech Lead, Shopping
Jul 2021 - Feb 2023 | New York CityDelivered reliable, resilient, and scalable software for customers and internal teams at Capital One Shopping. Provided tech leadership to a full-stack feature team on large-scale NodeJS/React applications and event-based services. Mentored and managed a team of engineers.
Capital One — Master Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Shopping
Jan 2019 - Jul 2021 | New York CityFull-stack engineering for Capital One Shopping, delivering reliable, resilient software and tooling for customers and internal teams. Special projects include exploration into GraphQL/Apollo with React, large-scale NodeJS and event-based architecture.
Capital One — Master Software Engineer/Tech Lead, Commercial Tech
Oct 2017 - Jan 2019 | Vienna, VAFocused on UI engineering efforts in Capital One's Commercial Card, leading a full-stack team to develop an internal servicing application. Mentored and managed the performance of junior engineers.
Aviture — Frontend Engineer
Mar 2014 - Oct 2017 | Washington, DCCreated modular and shareable UI toolkits/frameworks for the organization. Implemented mapping applications in AngularJS, React, and Backbone.js.
Editorial Projects in Education — Online Creative Director/Engineer
Sep 2010 - Oct 2014 | Bethesda, MDDesigned and implemented frontend features, custom analytics capabilities and content management system for the publication’s flagship website. Directed and executed data visualization, multimedia microsites and data information projects.
Education
University of Maryland — M.S. Information Management
2009 - 2011 | College Park, MDThesis: “An Integrated CRM Conceptual Framework” Areas of Concentration: Usability and Knowledge Management
Syracuse University — M.S. New Media
2004 - 2005 | Syracuse, NYCapstone: E-Commerce Interface and Order Management System Areas of Concentration: Database-driven interface design