Vinny Fiore

Software Engineer, New York, NY

I build scalable backend systems, cloud architecture, and AI-assisted engineering workflows. I'm currently modernizing release tooling and engineering standards at Capital One. Previously I scaled genetic testing platforms at GeneDx. Outside of work, I like to build software about movies.

Work

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2023 – Present

Capital One, New York, NY / Remote

  • Led the Go rearchitecture of legacy release pipeline flows, consolidating redundant API calls and cutting end-to-end response times by more than 50% across a system handling 700,000+ releases annually.
  • Architected an organization-wide error code API in Java, delivering real-time updates for more than 5,000 errors across 30+ sources of truth and 15+ teams.
  • Established reusable AI-assisted engineering standards through Claude Skills published to Capital One’s internal marketplace and adopted by dozens of engineers.
  • Built Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that integrated Artifactory with engineers’ Claude Code environments, giving agents direct access to artifact metadata and eliminating manual context gathering.
  • Modernized critical background jobs on AWS Batch, cutting costs by 50%, raising uptime to 99.99%, and establishing the on-call runbooks the team continues to use.
  • Provided technical direction to contract engineers, mentored early-career engineers through their first production deliveries and year-long rotations, and served as a technical interviewer for 10+ engineering roles.

Software Engineer II

Jun 2021 – Feb 2023

GeneDx (formerly Sema4), New York, NY / Remote

  • Built Kinesis ingestion pipelines processing genetic sequencing data with 100+ distinct markers per test, enabling real-time diagnostic availability for clinicians.
  • Engineered Node.js Lambdas and Step Functions for async processing of lab data across the company's largest testing suites, provisioned with Terraform.
  • Cut response times and memory usage by 90% with ElastiCache for Redis across multiple applications.

Senior Programmer

Apr 2018 – Jun 2021

New York City Department of Investigation, New York, NY / Remote

  • Migrated a legacy COBOL database to a modern Java application, enabling efficient reporting and access to decades of data.
  • Developed Python scripts to automate investigative search tasks, reducing processing time from hours to minutes.

Software Engineering Intern

Jan 2017 – Sep 2017

Major League Baseball, New York, NY

Education

Master of Science, Computer Science

2017

Pace University, New York, NY

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2016

St. John's University, Jamaica, NY

Skills

Languages & Frameworks

Java, Go, Python, JavaScript / TypeScript, Swift, SQL, Spring, Node.js, Next.js

AI & Agentic Tooling

Claude Code, MCP development, Claude Skills, Cursor, Windsurf, local LLM agent workflows

Cloud & Data

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate, Kubernetes, Terraform, Redis, SQL / NoSQL

Projects

Majestic 35

Swift / SwiftUI

iOS app for sharing movies you've watched with friends.

Cool Movies in NYC

Next.js

Next.js site aggregating showtimes for repertory theaters in NYC and LA.

Next MLB Game

Liquid / JavaScript

TRMNL plugin that shows your MLB team's next game.