Brian Berns
Open Source Developer at Freelance
Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolBrian 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.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Brown UniversityLangley High School
Stackoverflow
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471answers
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Github Skills (147)
visual-studio10
netcore10
fsharp10
core-library10
dotnet10
reddit10
intellisense10
webpart10
async9
combinator9
libtorch9
torchscript9
python9
bmp9
cpp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
brianberns/Cfrm
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Counterfactual Regret Minimization
Contributions:117 commits, 144 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
counterfactual-regret-minimization
brianberns/RedditChatBot
Mar 2023 - Mar 2023
A framework for chat bots that connect Reddit to ChatGPT.
Contributions:144 commits, 269 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
chatbotchatgptreddit
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