Summary
Brian Berns is an experienced software engineer and open source developer based in Bethesda, Maryland, with a career that stretches back over three decades and a focus on building production-grade systems. He co-founded Inteliquet and served as its first VP of Engineering, leading development of a bioinformatics Bio-Integration Suite and an NLP platform that extracts clinical insights from unstructured medical records prior to the company's acquisition by IQVIA. Earlier roles include Principal Analyst at RDA, where he delivered custom solutions for clients like Microsoft and Nasdaq, and several hands-on developer positions that grounded his long-term technical expertise. Now working as a freelance open source developer, he continues to publish work on GitHub and iterate on tools at the intersection of clinical data, NLP, and translational medicine. Collected experience across startups and enterprise projects gives him a rare blend of product-focused architecture and deep implementation skill. He holds a computer science degree from Brown University and is known for turning complex domain requirements into practical, auditable software.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brown University
Langley High School