Brian Berliner
Software Geek Emeritus at Life of Brian
Seacliff, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Berliner is a veteran software engineer and open-source pioneer based in Seacliff, California, whose career spans system-level engineering, founding startups, and senior technical leadership at companies like Sun Microsystems, Broadcom, and Splunk. Best known as the author of CVS, he has blended deep hands-on development with executive roles—founder/CTO positions, board memberships, and advisory work—across storage, enterprise software, and identity standards. He served as Distinguished Engineer and Senior Principal Engineer while also helping steer organizations such as the OpenID Foundation, demonstrating both product vision and standards-level influence. Now retired and styling himself Software Geek Emeritus, he continues to engage with the community and open source in a quieter, mentorship-oriented way. An alumnus of UIUC, he pairs decades of legacy systems expertise with a founder’s knack for turning architecture into viable businesses.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Stackoverflow
41reputation
780reached
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Github Skills (31)
minecraft10
api-platform10
postman10
kotlin9
dao9
json-schema-validator9
command-line-tool8
lua8
android8
linux8
windows8
postman-collection8
server8
converter7
sql7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
bberliner/openc2-json-schema
Feb 2019 - Sep 2019
An open-source JSON-Schema validator test suite and command-line tool for OpenC2
Contributions:63 commits, 2 PRs, 40 pushes in 6 months
command-line-tooljson-schema-validator
postmanlabs/postman-app-support
Feb 2016 - Jun 2020
Postman is an API platform for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster.
Contributions:2 comments, 2 issues in 4 years 4 months
api-platformpostman
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