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Chandler Severson

Vancouver, WA • me@chandl.io

Principal Software Engineer

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.

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Experience

Oracle

Dec, 2025 — Present

Principal Software Engineer, Oracle Health

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

Oracle

Sep, 2023 — Dec, 2025

Principal Software Engineer, OCI AI Infrastructure

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.

Oracle

Nov, 2020 — Sep, 2023

Senior Software Engineer, OCI Control Plane Platform

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

Nike

Sept, 2019 — Nov, 2020

Software Engineer (ETW)

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

Shasta Networks

Oct, 2018 — Aug, 2019

Software Engineer

Ashland.
  • 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.

Shasta Networks

Jun, 2016 — Oct, 2018

Integration Engineer

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

Southern Oregon University

Oct, 2014 — Jun, 2016

Senior Help Desk Technician

Promoted to Senior; mentored peers and provided escalation support. Ashland.

Education

Southern Oregon University

Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science • 2014 — 2017

Skills

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

Recognition

Outstanding Senior in Computer Science

Southern Oregon University • 2017

Social Links

  • Github: https://github.com/chandl
  • LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/chandler-severson/
  • Website: https://chandl.io

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