Chase Kernan
Principal Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChase Kernan is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building and leading teams that design low-latency, high-throughput distributed systems at AWS DynamoDB. Based in Seattle, he moved from hands-on SDE work into management and back to principal engineering, blending deep systems design with people leadership and delivery at cloud scale. He hires and mentors engineers focused on performance, reliability, and efficiency, and actively encourages Rust adoption for systems work. His background includes early research at LIGO and an engineering degree from Olin College, reflecting a curiosity for complex, physics-scale problems that informs his approach to distributed database architecture.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
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Github contributions (5)
wmm-olin-scope/stories.edu
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:313 commits in 3 months
chase-ok/dot-zsh
Mar 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:4 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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