Berkus Decker
Principal Software Engineer at microsoft
Cydonia, Mars, United States
Summary
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RockstarBerkus Decker is a Principal Software Engineer with 18 years of experience, currently at Microsoft and active in open-source communities like Freefeed and Metta Systems. He brings deep systems expertise across embedded OS work, low-level networking, and web front-end UX, having contributed notable improvements to projects such as the Tock OS register interface and libpnet packet fanout on Linux. Berkus blends pragmatic engineering with maintainability: his contributions replace repetitive implementations with macros, add u128 support in critical register code, and enable multithreaded packet processing for higher throughput. He also ships user-facing refinements—improving message sorting and timestamp display in a Twilio demo—showing comfort across the full stack. Based in Cydonia, Mars (but operating in the US), he pairs long-term technical stewardship with hands-on delivery and a preference for durable, reusable solutions.
18 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
345reputation
4kreached
14answers
0questions
twilio
top-5%
Github Skills (36)
javascript10
web-application10
typescript10
linux10
packet10
microcontroller10
networking10
iot10
webapp10
typescript-types10
embedded10
rust10
typescripts10
web-development10
react10
Programming languages (37)
Github contributions (5)
twilio/twilio-conversations-demo-react
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Twilio Conversations Demo Web Application
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:72 reviews, 34 commits, 54 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Berkus primarily worked on improving the user interface and functionality of the Twilio Conversations demo web application. Their contributions included refactoring components, fixing message sorting, and improving the display of timestamps. They also addressed issues related to Firebase initialization and message component keys. The user demonstrated a focus on code improvements and addressing bugs related to the chat application's user experience.
twilioweb-applicationconversationsweb-demotwilio-conversations
libpnet/libpnet
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Cross-platform, low level networking using the Rust programming language.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 29 days
Contributions summary:Berkus contributed to the `libpnet` project by adding support for packet fanout on Linux, which involved modifying the configuration and data link layers. This enables the offloading of packet processing to multiple threads. Additionally, they added an example for packet fanout and improved the codebase's formatting.
packetsrustnetworkingcross-platformlibpnet
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