Bernie Conrad
Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBernie Conrad is a founding engineer and embedded-to-cloud software generalist with a decade of experience building secure, user-focused authentication products and Bluetooth-enabled devices. He led architecture and firmware for Allthenticate’s desktop client and smart door reader, owning BLE communication, WebSocket integrations, testing, packaging, and distribution to deliver a seamless front-door-to-email authentication flow. Bernie contributed to the popular cross-platform Python BLE library bleak, standardizing advertisement parsing across CoreBluetooth, BlueZDBus, and .NET backends—demonstrating attention to cross-platform interoperability and API design. After moving to Notion and now founding a stealth startup in San Francisco, he blends hands-on engineering with product instincts to simplify complex systems. A lifelong tinkerer who began automating homework in high school, he balances technical craft with coaching rowing, marathon training, and an unexpected encyclopedic knowledge of Star Wars.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
De La Salle High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara
English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
bluetooth-le10
cross-platform10
btle10
multiplatform10
bluetooth-low-energy10
python10
bluetooth10
asyncio10
corebluetooth9
asp-net9
dotnet9
net9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
hbldh/bleak
Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
A cross platform Bluetooth Low Energy Client for Python using asyncio
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bernie primarily focused on enhancing the `bleak` library by implementing advertisement data parsing and handling across multiple Bluetooth Low Energy backends (CoreBluetooth, BlueZDBus, and DotNet). They introduced and standardized the `AdvertisementData` class, ensuring consistent data structures for different platforms. Contributions also included formatting adjustments, documentation updates, and general code cleanup, reflecting a focus on improving the library's functionality and maintainability. Furthermore, they integrated changes to support the timeout parameter within the `find_device_by_address` function.
pythonplatform-independentasynciobluetoothble
Bernstern/TheCivDraft
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:75 commits, 47 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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