Bernd Verst
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Bernd Verst is a Senior Software Engineer with 11+ years of cloud-native experience, currently leading development for a new Azure service and maintaining core integrations for the CNCF-graduate Dapr runtime. He blends hands-on backend engineering in Go with DevOps, automation, and developer advocacy—having helped Dapr through incubation, contributed to its CLI and component ecosystem, and fixed security and release automation issues. A former developer evangelist and founding member of Microsoft’s Cloud Developer Advocacy team, Bernd excels at translating technical work into community-facing guidance and product improvements. His background spans government cloud platforms at 18F, platform roles at Google and Twitter, and startup fraud-detection systems, giving him a rare mix of policy, product, and infrastructure experience. A dual German–US citizen and polyglot with cross-cultural leadership experience (including months in China), he brings mentorship, public speaking, and international collaboration to technical teams. Outside work he pursues jazz piano, distance running, and ongoing Mandarin study, reflecting a disciplined curiosity that informs his technical leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Mathematics Computer Science, B.A. Mathematics Computer Science at Macalester College
English, German, Latin, Dutch, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
json10
kubernetes10
container10
scripting10
cicd10
cosmosdb10
automation10
script10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
automations10
shell10
github-ci9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
dapr/components-contrib
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Community driven, reusable components for distributed apps
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 1348 reviews, 615 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Bernd's commits focused on adding support for time-to-live (TTL) functionality to the CosmosDB state store. This involved modifying existing code, including unit tests, to enable and test the new TTL features. The changes also involved handling explicit errors for better code maintainability and returning proper errors. The user also demonstrated familiarity with JSON and Base64 encoding.
sqlserverevent-hubscommunity-drivenmongodbcosmos-db
dapr/dapr
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Dapr is a portable, event-driven, runtime for building distributed applications across cloud and edge.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 232 reviews, 133 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Bernd primarily contributes to the Dapr runtime by addressing various issues, including bug fixes and improvements to release scripts. They demonstrated proficiency in Golang by fixing a regex for repeatable reminders, fixing release notes script and implementing component policies. Additionally, the user worked on the build process related to dev containers, as well as updating to new release charts. The user also addressed dependency and security vulnerability issues.
sidecarserverlessruntimeevent-drivenmicroservice
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