Kiaan Castillo
Software 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.
9 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 (36)
openai-api10
in-progress10
openai10
ai10
ollama10
openapi10
sanity10
nextjs9
llm9
sass9
webui9
css8
purecss7
sarimax6
lstm6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ssss-sfu/systemshacks
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
SystemsHacks Organizers Projects
Contributions:4 reviews, 20 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 3 months
organizers
nam-dang9/TurnOfftheTap
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:73 commits, 26 PRs, 61 pushes in 23 days
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