Eric Severance
Oracle Sun High End Server Support at Oracle Corporation
Manchester Township, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Severance is a seasoned technical support and back-end engineer with over 8 years of experience specializing in high-end Sun/Oracle server hardware and Solaris systems support. He combines deep onsite troubleshooting of mission-critical Sun Fire, SPARC Enterprise and Ultra platforms with practical software contributions to open-source projects like Meshtastic and Home Assistant, where he improved MQTT handling, PKI crypto, and webhook robustness. Based in New Jersey, Eric bridges legacy enterprise systems knowledge—Veritas, RAID, and Solaris administration—with modern embedded and automation stacks, showing an unusual blend of hardware-centric field expertise and firmware/webhook-level code refactoring. Known for simplifying complex codepaths and improving maintainability, he brings a pragmatic, security-minded approach to both operational support and back-end development.
8 years of coding experience
Certification, Sun Hardware, Certification, Sun Hardware at Oracle Univeristy | Sun Microsystems EducationAutoCAD Design, AutoCAD Design at Pennco Technical InstituteComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Louisiana MonroeDiploma, Maual, board drafting & AutoCAD, Diploma, Maual, board drafting & AutoCAD at Gloucester County Institute of Technology
Github Skills (19)
mesh10
c-language10
python10
webhooks10
mqtt10
mqttnet10
asyncio10
iot10
sys10
embedded10
home-assistant10
cprogramming-language10
home-automation10
cryptography9
lora9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
home-assistant/core
Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:137 reviews, 78 commits, 92 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the webhook functionality within the Home Assistant core. Their contributions included adding options for allowed methods and local-only restrictions, which involved modifying core webhook components and the trigger mechanism. They also addressed and refactored existing code related to webhook handling and automation triggers. Furthermore, the user was involved in fixing code, specifically updating the wemo component, and refactoring related to serial number usage.
raspberry-pipythonhouseprivacy-firstasyncio
meshtastic/firmware
Dec 2024 - Feb 2025
This repository contains the official firmware for Meshtastic, an open-source, off-grid mesh communication system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 37 PRs, 1 branch in 2 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on refactoring and optimizing MQTT-related code within the Meshtastic firmware. Their contributions involved reducing code nesting, improving code readability and maintainability, and addressing issues related to MQTT message handling. They also made changes to the crypto engine, enhancing the security and efficiency of PKI encryption within the system. Furthermore, the user updated the MQTT queue, improving the management and processing of queued messages.
rp2040nrf52meshfirmwareoff-grid
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