Principal Software Engineer/Vancouver, WA · me@chandl.io

Staff-level engineer with 9+ years building and operating distributed systems at scale. Technical lead and founding member of teams from 0→1; strong in system design, cross-team alignment, and mentoring. Currently Principal Engineer at Oracle Health (patient portal); prior: OCI AI Infrastructure (data center & GPU inventory), OCI control-plane database (1M+ req/s, 40+ regions), Nike (cloud-native retail), and healthcare integration.

now: building the next-gen Oracle Health Patient Portal
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01 / projects

Things I build after hours.

Small, sharp tools — self-hostable, open source, and running in production.

  • 01live

    scrumhost.app

    scrumhost.app

    A free, realtime tool for running scrum ceremonies — planning poker, retros, standups.

    • SvelteKit
    • PocketBase
    • Tailwind
    Visit Source
  • 02live

    tmpmail.fyi

    tmpmail.fyi

    Lightweight, self-hostable disposable email. SMTP in, inbox + JSON API out, gone in an hour.

    • Go
    • SMTP
    • SQLite
    Visit Source
  • 03live

    QR Studio

    qrstudio.chandl.io

    A tiny self-hosted QR code API. Give it a link, get a configurable SVG/PNG/JPEG back.

    • Go
    • SVG
    • HTTP API
    Visit Source
  • 04wip

    More in the lab

    Experiments, forks, and half-finished ideas live on GitHub.

02 / experience

Distributed systems, at scale.

From healthcare integrations to tier-0 cloud infrastructure — usually as the engineer who starts the thing.

  1. Dec 2025→Present

    Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Health

    @Oracle · Washington

    Lead engineer on the next-generation Oracle Health Patient Portal.

  2. Sep 2023→Dec 2025

    Principal Software Engineer, OCI AI Infrastructure

    @Oracle

    Founding Staff engineer for a data center management system powering one of the world's largest AI training/inference facilities. Set technical direction for an org that grew to hundreds of engineers.

    • Led asset management (inventory) team of 10+; shipped system 0→1 and served as SME for post go-live.
    • Owned Rack Handover tooling; validated >$1B of GPU/Compute hardware before customer handover.
    • Onboarded 20+ engineers; conducted 70+ Senior/Principal interviews; built scrumhost.app for sprint planning.
  3. Nov 2020→Sep 2023

    Senior Software Engineer, OCI Control Plane Platform

    @Oracle · Portland

    Tier-0 NoSQL database: 1M+ req/s, 40+ regions, hundreds of internal OCI teams.

    • Authored ECAR migration design; named one of three best architecture docs in OCI FY24; used as org-wide template.
    • Designed client-side service discovery adopted by hundreds of teams for zero-downtime DB migration.
    • Led on-call shadowing and onboarding (20+ engineers); project lead for sub-teams of 5–10.
    • Designed password rotation for disconnected National Security regions (30k DBs, zero downtime, no direct access).
    • FY23: ~700 SEV-2/3 resolved; 200% improvement in multitenant connection library; 1M+ internal tool downloads.
  4. Sep 2019→Nov 2020

    Software Engineer (ETW)

    @Nike · Beaverton

    Built AWS microservices for Nike retail (point of sale, self-checkout). DevOps rotation: owned scalability, resilience, and availability.

  5. Oct 2018→Aug 2019

    Software Engineer

    @Shasta Networks · Ashland

    Technical lead for healthcare data tooling and infrastructure.

    • Technical lead: HL7/FHIR conformance and validation tool; clinical charts from multi-source patient data for large billing client.
    • Led infrastructure migration; proposed hybrid microservice architecture; introduced AWS; mentored juniors and interns.
  6. Jun 2016→Oct 2018

    Integration Engineer

    @Shasta Networks · Ashland

    Project lead for hundreds of Java HL7 routes; technical liaison for 400+ interfaces across EHRs, interface engines, and billing.

  7. Oct 2014→Jun 2016

    Senior Help Desk Technician

    @Southern Oregon University · Ashland

    Promoted to Senior; mentored peers and provided escalation support.

03 / toolkit

Skills & background.

// skills

  • Distributed Systems
  • Software Architecture
  • System Design
  • Technical Leadership
  • Java
  • Python
  • Go
  • Oracle Database
  • AWS
  • OCI
  • HL7 / FHIR

// education

B.S. Computer Science

Southern Oregon University · 2014 — 2017

// recognition

Outstanding Senior in Computer Science

Southern Oregon University · 2017

04 / contact

Let's build
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