Bernd Dorn is a veteran software architect and CTO with 20 years building service-oriented and distributed web applications, currently leading Lovely Systems and co-founding Crate Technology. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering with strategic technical leadership, guiding teams through agile transformations and cloud-native SaaS delivery. His open-source contributions to CrateDB emphasize making complex distributed SQL systems more usable through documentation, usability fixes, and pragmatic refactors. Based in Austria, he pairs deep engineering experience with a consultant’s knack for tooling and process improvement, often favoring open source ecosystems. An early background in audio engineering hints at a multidisciplinary curiosity that informs his systems-thinking approach.
20 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
FHV - Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
Audio Engineering, Audio Engineering at SAE Munich
CrateDB is a distributed and scalable SQL database for storing and analyzing massive amounts of data in near real-time, even with complex queries. It is PostgreSQL-compatible, and based on Lucene.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:1 review, 603 commits, 230 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Bernd primarily contributed to documentation and the implementation of features within the CrateDB repository. They fixed typos, removed outdated documentation, and improved the display of the schema. Their work included creating and extending documentation, and refactoring for code style and readability. The user's focus appears to be on improving the usability and completeness of the documentation, with some focus on codebase improvements.
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