Bernie Durfee
VP Of Engineering at Amira Learning
Village of Ballston Spa, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBernie Durfee is a seasoned engineering executive with 25+ years of experience who currently serves as VP of Engineering, building AI-powered K–12 learning platforms and founding in-house teams to replace outsourced systems. He blends deep hands-on architecture—cloud migrations, infra-as-code, and enterprise CI/CD—with strategic leadership honed at GE where he led a 200+ app cloud migration and created an enterprise Software Engineering Competency Center. Bernie has repeatedly scaled teams and products to drive revenue and reliability improvements (including a 4x lift at eduCLIMBER) while keeping close involvement in code and cloud implementation. Based in Ballston Spa, NY, he pairs technical rigor from a Computational Science degree with executive development from GE Crotonville, favoring pragmatic tradeoffs that balance speed, quality, and cost.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Crotonville AlumniBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
English
Github Skills (109)
golang10
programming-language9
amazon-cloudfront9
switch9
interpreter9
toolbelt9
react-native9
asciidoc9
ios9
react9
android9
go9
compiler8
sdk8
vector-icons8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
electric-it/xlrelease
Apr 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 4 PRs, 20 pushes in 2 years 8 months
cookbookchef-resourcexl-releasemanaged-by-terraformchef
electric-it/cagophilist
Oct 2016 - Mar 2019
A toolbelt for easily managing AWS keys for those that need to switch between roles while using the SDK or CLI.
Contributions:6 releases, 35 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 4 months
toolbeltaws-keyskeyssdkneed
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