Summary
Javier Chicao is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with 11 years of experience specializing in availability and resilience engineering, currently rated at the highest performance tier. He drives critical latency and availability improvements for Amazon's ShoppingCart, contributing to initiatives that achieved 99.999% SLA targets and served millions of customers daily. Skilled in Java, Spring, JavaScript/TypeScript and cross-team collaboration, he has led service migrations, parallelized calls, and proposed a split of the Cart monolith to improve scalability. Notably, he was the single point of contact for latency and availability questions and played a key role in launching a high-revenue, latency-sensitive feature in 2023. Trained in information technology at Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile, he blends deep operational focus with product-facing impact across web and mobile domains.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Information Technology, Bachelor at Pontificia Universidad Cat贸lica de Chile
Colegio San Pedro Nolasco