Justin
Bachorik

Master Software Engineer (2017) → Senior Manager (2018) → Director (2020) → Senior Director (2022 – Present)

• ·Leads client platform engineering (iOS, Android, Web, and enterprise design system) for Capital One's largest customer-facing experiences; organization of approximately 100 engineers
• ·Serves as a company-wide leader in Capital One's AI adoption efforts — coaching 20+ engineering teams on agentic development, emceeing and speaking at major internal events, and moderating senior leadership panels on the role of AI in software engineering
• ·Currently leading platform integration in support of a major strategic acquisition
• ·Directed complete rearchitecture of Capital One's mobile application to a modular, declarative UI framework, reworking hundreds of features with zero customer impact
• ·Led company-wide mobile talent transformation (2024–2025), retraining Capital One's mobile engineering workforce on modern frameworks including SwiftUI, Jetpack Compose, and Combine
• ·Built and scaled a greenfield platform for secure, identity-linked document storage from a single team to four (API, UI, Integrations, DevOps/SRE); platform served 10M+ documents at peak
• ·Drove early adoption of Docker, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture at Capital One; led internal seminars and Event Storming workshops to shift engineering culture around distributed systems

Contract Developer (2013) → Senior Developer (2014) → Lead Developer (2015 – 2017)

• ·Led development of NPR.org, serving 100M+ monthly visitors across a national network of hundreds of member stations
• ·Rebuilt NPR.org as a PJAX-based single-page application with a persistent React/Redux audio player supporting article playlists and live local radio streaming; recognized with the NPR Success Award for Innovation (2016)
• ·Overhauled NPR's podcasting infrastructure during the height of the mid-2010s podcast boom
• ·Led complete responsive redesign of NPR.org across all page types, and redesigned and rebuilt the NPR Music flagship home page

Senior Interactive Developer

• ·Built award-winning digital experiences for high-profile clients including David Copperfield, Jim Beam, Hyatt, Guess, and the Cardiovascular Research Foundation
• ·Led engineering for the agency, standardizing modern software development practices and growing the team
• ·Recognized with the FWA Award; agency earned Webby Award recognition in professional services; featured in New York Magazine

Research Technician, Department of Neurology · Harvard Medical School

• ·Conducted MRI-based structural analysis of musicians' brains and behavioral studies of emotional response to music under Dr. Gottfried Schlaug
• ·Developed web-based clinical software for stroke rehabilitation using Melodic Intonation Therapy, deployed for patient use
• ·Co-authored peer-reviewed publications in Music Perception and Frontiers in Psychology

Engineering Intern, Nuclear Medicine Department

• ·Led development of PACSpack under Dr. Roberto Maass-Moreno, a client/server application for searching, transmitting, and receiving DICOM-formatted medical images across the NIH Clinical Center, connecting PET/CT scanners, image archives, and clinical viewers; deployed across the NIH Clinical Center