Summary
Mike 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