Credit cards are Capital One’s main physical product, and teams all over the company work to support this product whether it’s in the form of prod

Ah, So That’s What’s in My Wallet!

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2021-06-15 03:00:06

Credit cards are Capital One’s main physical product, and teams all over the company work to support this product whether it’s in the form of product development, software engineering, design, etc. For example, Alana is a data engineer working on rewards applications for external partners while Sahana works to support data scientists developing machine learning models used to derive insights from card customer calls. Like many others at Capital One, we know what needs to be done to support credit card initiatives, but we were curious about how physical credit cards actually work!

Our curiosity propelled us to dig deeper and learn more about this technology. We were fascinated by what we learned about physical credit card technology and figured other software engineers would be interested in learning the same.

We compiled all of our research on EMV chip credit cards and shared it with our fellow Capital One associates during the company’s largest internal Software Engineering Conference (SECON). We were excited to see Software Engineers all over the company learning from our talk, which broke down EMV technology concepts into easily digestible components. Today, our Intro to EMV technology video is still the most-viewed and most-endorsed of all SECON 2020 videos.