Distributed systems, APIs & developer platforms.
I'm Jonathan Reyes, a lead software engineer with 11 years in regulated financial services. At Capital One, I lead architecture for a high-throughput platform that orchestrates communications with external dealership partners, and I previously ran the platform ecosystem around the company-wide JFrog Artifactory repository. On my own time, I build boost — an open-source package manager for AI coding skills, shaped by what running enterprise developer tooling teaches you. I work primarily in Java and Python on AWS, with a track record of setting standards that spread beyond team boundaries.
What I've been building
Work at Capital One spanning a high-throughput orchestration backbone and a document-intelligence pipeline — plus boost, the open-source developer tool I build outside of work.
Communications platform
Lead architecture, technical direction, and delivery for a high-throughput platform orchestrating communications with external dealership partners, built on AWS microservices (Docker, SQS, Kafka, Postgres, ECS).
boost — open-source AI skills package manager
An independent side project: a CLI that finds, installs, and governs the skill files AI coding agents run on, then keeps them in sync across every agent at once. Grounded in daily, hands-on AI-assisted engineering with Claude Code and Windsurf.
See the full visual guide →Cerebro — systematic trading research platform
An independent side project: a paper-first, multi-asset trading bot on Nautilus Trader with a strict "honest measurement" pipeline — promotion gates, out-of-sample validation, and a risk layer consulted on every bar. Shipped with a full visual architecture guide.
Explore the architecture docs →Document intelligence pipeline
Built a document-intelligence pipeline using AWS Textract that extracts structured findings from unstructured partner documents, replacing manual review for analyst teams.
Eleven years, two companies, five roles
From SoftLayer APIs to leading architecture for a major bank's dealer-communications platform.
Capital One
Plano, TX June 2019 – PresentLead Software Engineer
Feb 2023 – Present · RemoteLead architecture and delivery for a high-throughput dealer-communications platform and a Textract document-intelligence pipeline; re-architected its LLM solution from Textract to AWS Bedrock and a self-hosted vLLM (Llama) deployment after a data-classification review. Own production operations end to end — on-call, incident triage, root-cause investigation, monitoring. Serve as Sales Testing Champion, defining test strategy and quality standards adopted across four engineering teams; mentor engineers and lead cross-functional delivery from scoping through production. Recognized with two ACE Awards for Technical Engineering Excellence (2024, 2025) and the Diamond Dealer Award (2024).
JavaPythonAWS ECSAWS BedrockDockerClaude CodePrincipal Associate Software Engineer · Prequalified Applications
June 2021 – Feb 2023 · RemoteArchitected and operated external-facing services powering auto loan prequalification for public applicants — owning API contracts, data models, AWS deployment, and production support end to end. Partnered with product and risk stakeholders to translate regulated lending requirements into resilient, scalable service architecture.
API designAWSregulated lendingPrincipal Associate Software Engineer · Artifactory Platform & Metrics
June 2019 – June 2021Ran the platform ecosystem around JFrog Artifactory, the company-wide binary repository (services deployed via Terraform). Automated artifact promotion in production pipelines with AWS Lambda and DynamoDB, eliminating a manual release step for engineering teams across the enterprise; delivered performance-analytics microservices and metrics pipelines feeding machine learning models.
JFrog ArtifactoryAWS LambdaDynamoDBTerraformIBM
Dallas, TX 2015 – 2019Software Engineer II
2017 – 2019Built OpenShift (Kubernetes) deployments for microservices; migrated server provisioning to Netflix Conductor workflow orchestration, converting sequential job scheduling to parallel execution and cutting large-data processing from hours to minutes.
OpenShiftNetflix ConductorSoftware Engineer I · SoftLayer (acquired by IBM)
2015 – 2017Developed APIs for globally integrated services; built Splunk dashboards for service metrics and health checks and contributed to the CI/CD functional test framework.
APIsSplunkCI/CDboost — a package manager for what your agent knows
An independent, open-source CLI that installs and governs AI agent skills. Built and maintained on my own time.
boost pulls AI coding skills out of Git-hosted registries and lands them in Claude Code, Windsurf, and Cursor in one step — 72 commands spanning install, discovery, AI-assisted authoring, governance, and team rollout.
Skills get handled like real dependencies instead of files you paste around: a lock file pins exact state, boost audit screens against safety blocklists, and Boostfile bundles hand an entire setup to someone else intact.
Explore the visual guide →$ boost install jira-integration ✓ copied to ~/.agents/skills/jira-integration ✓ linked → claude-code · windsurf · cursor ✓ lock updated (.skill-lock.json) $ boost doctor ✓ 14 skills installed · 2 taps synced ✓ lock file integrity OK # open source · github.com/jonnyeclectic/boost
The stack I work in
Deep in Java and Python on AWS, with the platform and delivery tooling around them.
Languages & frameworks
The core toolkit for services and automation.
Cloud & infrastructure
Production AWS services, with containers everywhere.
AI & automation
Daily AI-assisted engineering, and building the tools for it.
Platform & delivery
The pipelines and platforms teams ship through.
APIs & data
External-facing contracts and the data behind them.
Quality & operations
Test strategy champion; production ownership end to end.
UNT computer science, AWS certified
BS, Computer Science — University of North Texas
2011 – 2015Minor in Mathematics, with certificates in Technical Communication and Game Programming.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
2025Current certification covering AWS architecture and services.
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