Howard Dierking
Managing Vice President CTO, Originations
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolHoward Dierking is a seasoned technology leader and CTO, currently Managing Vice President / CTO at Capital One, steering loan-servicing engineering and divisional architecture for the auto finance business. With over 13 years in senior engineering and leadership roles across Capital One, Olive, SAP Concur, and Microsoft, he excels at turning strategy into scalable products and building high-performance, remote‑first teams. Notably, he built a 20-person cross-disciplinary engineering group at Olive in six months and then scaled event-driven, data-aware architectures across multiple teams. His work spans full-stack development, cloud-native systems, semantic technologies, and global program management, including cross-country collaborations across the US, Europe, and Asia. An active educator and open-source enthusiast, he has published Pluralsight courses, led content and developer-center initiatives, and maintains ongoing teaching and writing through howarddierking.com. He holds an MS in Computer Science from SMU and a BA in Political Science plus CS from Samford, and is based in Austin, Texas.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Second Baptist SchoolBA, Political Science + Computer Science, BA, Political Science + Computer Science at Samford UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at SMU Lyle School of Engineering
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Github Skills (12)
html10
theme-development10
css10
jekyll10
front-end-development9
javascript8
javascripts8
api-doc7
api7
aws-lambda6
rust6
closures6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
concur/developer.concur.com
Sep 2014 - Jan 2019
The Concur developer portal Web site
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:164 commits, 46 PRs, 66 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Howard's initial commits focused on establishing the foundational structure of the developer portal website, including setting up the basic Jekyll scaffold. Subsequent commits involved converting major layout blocks to a new theme. The contributions also include theming of the site using the Concur brand standards and updating the top navigation with links to existing content. Further commits demonstrate content and layout updates, including an API explorer section.
web-portalweb-siteweb-appportalconcur
howarddierking/RestBugs
Jan 2012 - Aug 2015
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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