Mike Chester
SDEIII at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Chester is an experienced software engineer with 13 years building cloud-native systems, now an SDEIII at AWS after progressing through SDEII on the AWS Commerce Platform. He brings strong polyglot skills in Python, Java, Go and Rust, and deep operational experience with Docker, Kubernetes and cloud cost management tooling. His background spans full-stack and backend work—from designing microservices and OpenStack components to contributing to eSIM orchestration and cost allocation products—demonstrating both product and infrastructure fluency. Known for taking features from design to production and mentoring peers in best practices, he also has hands-on SRE and automation experience dating back to early roles in tooling and datacenter deployments. Based in Vancouver with a B.Eng. in Computer Engineering from the University of Victoria, he combines practical engineering rigor with a track record of shipping resilient, scalable systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Engineering at University of Victoria
Github Skills (56)
kubernetes10
talos10
squid10
discord10
taskfile10
terraform10
gitops10
fluxcd10
discord-bot10
renovate10
ansible10
plex10
k8s10
routers9
docker-compose9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mchestr/HT1632C-Arduino
Jan 2013 - Dec 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 6 years
mchestr/home-cluster
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Cat-approved, 100% renewable, GMO-Free HomeLab k8s cluster managed via Flux2 & Renovate
Contributions:3494 commits, 4085 PRs, 9315 pushes in 9 months
git-opsk8s-clusterrenovateansiblesops
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