Director of Product · Capital One

I build the tools
engineers build with.

Currently

Director of Product at Capital One. I lead developer platform products that ship faster, scale farther, and get out of engineers' way.

CJ Dotson

Strategist turned builder,
platform PM by obsession.

I started my career in Big 4 consulting — PwC and Deloitte — integrating acquisitions and moving companies towards modern cloud practices for Fortune 100 clients. I liked the strategy. I loved the systems.

That led me to product management at Adobe, where I led developer experience and internal tooling. Now at Capital One, I run One Pipeline — the CI/CD platform that handles 10M+ builds a year for 25,000+ engineers. It's the kind of work where the user is a developer and the product is invisible when it's working.

On the side, I'm building Protops — a tool for product-minded operators who are tired of strategy living in slides. When I'm not doing either, I'm probably reading or gaming.

25,000+

Engineers using platforms I've built

15+

Fortune 100 clients served

10M+

Annual builds supported

500K+

Developer hours saved

Career arc

2012–2016

Univ. of Alabama

B.S. in Information Systems

2016–2019

Big 4 (PwC / Deloitte)

Strategy Consultant

2019–2022

Adobe

Senior Product Manager

2022–present

Capital One

Director of Product