Kiaan Castillo
Software Development Engineer, Frontend II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiaan Castillo is a frontend-focused Software Development Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience building production web applications, now on the frontend team at Amazon in Seattle. He progressed rapidly through full-stack roles at Purposely—from intern to Lead Developer—demonstrating ownership of product features and team delivery. Known for a “always building, always learning” mindset, he combines practical engineering with continuous improvement and a strong foundation from Simon Fraser University’s Software Systems program. Kiaan brings startup agility plus enterprise-scale discipline, with a track record of shipping customer-facing interfaces and mentoring junior engineers. He often balances feature work with iterative optimization, suggesting a preference for incremental, measurable improvements that drive user impact.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Software Systems (Computer Science), Bachelor of Science - BS Software Systems (Computer Science) at Simon Fraser University
English, Tagalog
Github Skills (28)
llm10
webui10
openai10
ai10
openapi10
sanity10
in-progress9
ollama9
sass8
css7
nextjs7
prediction5
prediction-model5
water4
consumption4
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ssss-sfu/ssss-sfu.github.io
Aug 2021 - Nov 2022
Software Systems Student Society Website
Contributions:3 releases, 22 reviews, 43 commits in 1 year 3 months
cssin-progressnextjssanitysass
nam-dang9/TurnOfftheTap
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:73 commits, 26 PRs, 61 pushes in 23 days
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