Juliet MankinAssociate Database Engineer

Capital One Finance (Discover Financial Services) | Riverwoods, IL

• Converting manual processes to automated Ansible playbook script to ensure efficiency and compliance across all deployments and installations.
• Optimizing SQL queries in Snowflake to reduce use of compute resources and costs.
• Part of the on-call rotation, offering additional support for our managed databases outside of working hours.

Capital One Finance (Discover Financial Services) | Riverwoods, IL

• Worked with a small team to develop an internal user reporting application in JavaScript and TypeScript.
• Piloted the team’s use of Next.js in application development.
• Referenced Figma for UX design and utilized Tailwind libraries and CSS to align the application with the design.
• Queried internal APIs to collect the data required for our applications.
• Practiced Test Driven Development (TDD) and utilized Vitest and Playwright testing libraries to test code reliability.
• Wrote and ran automated accessibility scans on all our apps following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 AA standards (WCAG 2.2 AA) to ensure compliance with the company standard, and remediated any violations found.

Capital One Finance (Discover Financial Services) | Riverwoods, IL

• Configured network devices and connections through Cisco Modeling Labs platform.
• Wrote dynamic Python scripts to run diagnostic checks on in-network devices and utilized data collection through external APIs to collect information on contract coverage for all Cisco devices.
• Used automation within the company network to aid the network engineering team by adding efficiency to everyday tasks as well as contribute knowledge towards an upcoming large-scale network device refresh.
Internship extended to a part-time, remote role through the school year.