# Samuel Lanctot > Senior Software Engineer @ GEICO | AWS Certified Solutions Architect Location: Silver Spring, Maryland, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samuellanctot As a Senior Associate at Capital One, I leverage my AWS Certified Solutions Architect credential and my expertise in AWS Lambda, Angular, NodeJS, and Scala to maintain and upgrade SOX control automation software using AWS serverless technologies and ECS clusters. I have been in this role for over two years, and I enjoy working with a talented and diverse team of engineers and analysts to deliver high-quality and secure solutions for the financial sector. Before joining Capital One, I was a Senior Software Engineer at GEICO for two and a half years, where I developed Sales application interfaces with Microsoft .Net WebApi. I also worked as a Software Developer at Modis for two years, where I was a contractor in a federal agency and built a C# MVC 5 application with a responsive UI. Throughout my career, I have been passionate about learning modern front-end and cloud technologies, and I constantly seek new challenges and opportunities to grow as a full-stack engineer. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ GEICO Jan 2024 – Present | Chevy Chase, MD ### Senior Associate @ Capital One Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Tysons Corner, Virginia, United States ▪ Streamlined Snowflake queries used by AWS EMR cluster and migrated to Lambda, reducing runtime to under 5 minutes, resulting in 100x reduction in cloud compute costs and time savings of 12 hours per month in routine maintenance ▪ Implemented system for privileged user action justifications, employing scheduled Lambda jobs to consolidate data, slashing controls team's workload by ~40 hours per work week while enabling greater focus on critical tasks ▪ Engineered comprehensive system leveraging Spark, Scala, Snowflake, and AWS EMR to monitor activity in AWS CloudTrail, resulting in enhanced real-time insights and heightened system performance ▪ Implemented control management interfaces with Angular, Material UI, and Nodejs on AWS ECS cluster, optimizing user interfaces for efficient control execution ▪ Demonstrated adaptability by maintaining and upgrading legacy code in multiple programming languages (Scala/Python/Nodejs), ensuring continuous functionality and compliance with evolving industry standards ### Senior Software Engineer @ GEICO Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area ▪ Upgraded Geico’s unified sales application via .Net Core, Adaptive Cards, and integrated REST APIs, successfully migrating nationwide sales to new adaptive interface, enhancing customer engagement and satisfaction ▪ Improved unified sales application by developing requirements from existing code, reducing API response time, errors, and individual steps, and fueling increased customer follow-through and more sales ▪ Led implementation of updates to conversational sales platform on Azure with NoSQL database (COSMOS DB), ensuring seamless integration and optimized performance ▪ Played pivotal role in generating requirements and developing solutions to retire legacy .Net 4.5-based API, streamlining application architecture for improved efficiency ### Software Developer @ Modis Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Washington DC-Baltimore Area ▪ Engineered tailored SAML implementation to federate seamlessly with diverse identity providers, including IBM and Microsoft, certifying secure and efficient authentication while strengthening overall cybersecurity protocols ▪ Designed and executed highly configurable Single Sign-On solution, enhancing security measures and user accessibility ▪ Developed dynamic website with .Net MVC 5, Telerik Kendo UI components, Bootstrap, and Oracle SQL back end, providing intuitive and visually appealing user interface ### .NET developer @ Triad Interactive Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Building and improving web based learning tools for Microsoft Office products. ### Manufacturing Execution Software Engineer @ Micron Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Development of monitoring systems in Perl and desktop UIs using WPF and .NET web technologies. Maintained and improved manufacturing software systems for 24/7 operation. Resolved critical issues as a part of a on call rotation as 2nd tier software support. Recieved several 'SPOT' bonuses due to good performance and proactive regression testing, identifying issues before they affected production. Worked with an international team to create requirements, develop, and test software solutions. Made suggestions for improvements to version control standards that lead to changes in the company standards. ### Undergraduate Assistant for Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering @ Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Assist with student's homework and with lab preparation for 400 level Mechatronics course. ### VMEC Scholar @ Micron Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Manassas, Virginia Developed a full stack web application in the Microsoft MVC framework with a MSSQL and Windows Server backend. ### Research Assistant @ Virginia Commonwealth University Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 Developing Bio-medical image processing tool to enable better decision making in pelvic trauma cases. ## Education ### B.S in Computer Engineering Virginia Commonwealth University, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 ### A.S in Computer Science Northern Virginia Community College Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/samuel-lanctot - Website: http://samlanctot.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/samuellanctot JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samuellanctot/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22