Rashid Mayes is an Engineering Manager at Microsoft and Washington, DC Community Partner for the New York City-based Fintech Connector. With a career that spans roles at Microsoft, Facebook, Capital One, and several other companies across Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, DC, he also combined his passions for technology and service by co-founding the Astrient Foundation. At Microsoft, Rashid leads a team of geo-dispersed engineers building tools for workforce sentiment capture and analytics. Before joining Microsoft, Rashid led engineering teams that created tools to help Meta perform content reviews across its family of applications including Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger. As a Director of Software Engineering for Capital One, he led teams responsible for container orchestration, the mobile CI/CD, and cloud governance, risk, and compliance for some of the bank’s most critical AWS accounts. Rashid is a graduate of Hampton University and currently lives in Howard County. His spare time is dedicated to his daughters and working to promote technology as a means of social innovation.