Javier Núñez

Head of Development at icar · Chile

I lead development teams and have been building software products for more than fifteen years.

Today I lead icar's development team, its architecture and its roadmap, and I designed how the team works with artificial intelligence. Before that I built electronic signature platforms, solutions for digital agencies and bespoke projects as an independent consultant.

Experience

  1. 2025 – now

    Head of Development · icar

    Leading the development team, technical and architectural direction, and the product roadmap. Designing and rolling out the team's AI-assisted way of working.

  2. 2023 – 2025

    Tech Lead and Backend Developer · icar

    Technical leadership and AWS architecture for an API that digitises vehicle procedures, integrated with authentication, electronic signature and monitoring.

  3. 2022 – 2023

    Backend Developer · Jumpitt

    Endpoints for the CINCEL.digital API, document management and signature workflows, and query optimisation.

  4. 2017 – 2022

    Software Engineer · Antirion

    New features, maintenance and incident resolution for the platform, focused on stability and performance.

  5. 2015 – 2017

    Independent technology consultant

    Bespoke platforms for Midea, Carrier, Universidad de Chile, BBDO, Gasco and El Tepual Airport, among others, from consulting to launch.

  6. 2015

    Development Team Lead · BBDO Chile

    Managing the development team and web and digital campaign projects with agile methods.

  7. 2010 – 2014

    Software Development Team Lead · Proximity Worldwide

    Leading the development team for digital marketing clients, after a year as a development engineer.

Projects

GATE and the AI-assisted SDLC

An open framework for a company to build its own AI-assisted development life cycle, and the way to put it to work.

monitor-log

Observability in business language: the state of a company's services, in words anyone understands.

All projects and products

Blog

  1. October 20, 2026

    How to implement GATE in your company

    What it takes to set up a company's SDLC with GATE, and where to start.

  2. October 16, 2026

    Observability in business language

    Logs tell what is happening in production, but in a language few people read.

  3. October 13, 2026

    How GATE was built

    GATE started as a list of problems that kept repeating when working with AI.

See the blog

Education

  1. 2004 – 2009

    Computer Engineering · Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

    Graduated in 2014. Before that, five semesters of Electronic Engineering at the same university.

How I work

Leadership
Team leadership, technical architecture, code review, mentoring, agile methods
Applied AI
AI-assisted development with Claude Code and GitHub Copilot, processes with human control and traceability
Backend
Node.js, TypeScript, NestJS, Python, PHP
Frontend
Next.js, React
Data
PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, DynamoDB
Cloud and operations
AWS (ECS, Lambda, RDS, SQS, SNS, S3, Cognito), Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, New Relic, Sentry

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