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Brandy Dawkins
Distinguished Engineer, Capital One
Location: Silver Spring, MD United States
Joined: Apr 28th, 2026

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Distinguished Engineer and architect specializing in designing and modernizing large-scale technology platforms across financial services, healthcare, and federal sectors. Expertise spans cloud-native and event-driven architectures, high-availability platform design, infrastructure architecture at enterprise scale, GenAI enablement, API design and governance, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. Recognized for building secure, scalable, and compliant systems for regulated environments, including platform infrastructure supporting 1B+ documents annually, establishing architectural standards, and driving enterprise-wide platform modernization.

Education (request update)

Hampton University class of 1997

Undergrad Major: Information Technology

George Washington Univ class of 2007

Grad Major: Information Technology

Experience

I currently work with Capital One as Distinguished Engineer
I have 23 years of experience working in the Financial Services industry.

Distinguished Engineer â Fraud & Disputes Domain | Capital One
From March 2024 to March 2026 • 2 year(s)
Modernized fraud investigation platform transitioning to cloud-native event-driven architecture. Architected GenAI document intelligence solution reducing review time from 11 to 4 minutes per document.

Distinguished Engineer â Enterprise Servicing Platforms Domain | Capital One
From June 2021 to March 2024 • 3 year(s)
Developed Domain Destination Architecture for Enterprise Document Management Platform supporting 1B+ documents annually. Established architecture governance forums across 20+ teams.

Senior Manager, Cloud Technology Architecture | Accenture
From July 2014 to June 2021 • 7 year(s)
Led cloud architecture and platform modernization across federal defense, financial services, and healthcare clients. Architected AWS GovCloud enterprise IT-as-a-Service platform for U.S. Army.

Senior Solution Architect | CGI Technologies & Solutions
From November 2012 to July 2014 • 2 year(s)
Senior solution architect role focused on enterprise architecture and system design.

Software Design Engineer â Chief Architect | SAIC
From November 2003 to November 2012 • 9 year(s)
Progressed from Software Design Engineer to Chief Architect over 9-year tenure.

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