Lucas Chandler. Available for work

Principal Engineer · Agentic AI

I build systems
companies depend on.

Architecture consulting, agentic AI engineering, and production platform development. Twelve years shipping distributed systems that run in production — without drama.

  • 12 yrsin production
  • Prototype → acquisitionstart to exit
  • 99%uptime at scale
  • $500K+infrastructure saved

Selected work

Things that shipped, and held.

  1. 2022 — 2026 B2B Commerce

    Enterprise commerce platform transformation

    Major chemical distributor

    Rebuilt a fragile commerce platform's API architecture and release process straight through a major acquisition — consolidating five global distribution tenants behind one portal with fine-grained isolation.

    • 75% faster releases
    • 7s → 200ms catalog load
    • 99% uptime
    • 5 tenants isolated
  2. 2025 — 2026 Software Engineering

    AI-accelerated development pipeline

    Production SaaS platform

    Built agentic engineering tooling — custom MCP servers, RAG over multi-codebase knowledge, multi-agent delegation — that halved feature delivery time with no added headcount and no loss of quality.

    • 50% faster delivery
    • <15 min code review
    • Zero regressions
  3. 2014 — 2019 Healthcare IT

    Distributed search infrastructure optimization

    Enterprise healthcare technology

    Led 10–14 engineers redesigning the search infrastructure every other application depended on — compounding efficiency gains while holding the line at 99% uptime.

    • $500K+ saved
    • 30%+ cost reduction
    • 99% uptime
    • 10–14 engineers led

Get in touch

Let's build something
that lasts.

I work with companies that need reliable, maintainable systems — architecture, platform engineering, or the infrastructure that makes AI agents production-ready.