Donnie Berkholz
SVP Platforms, Architecture & Research
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDonnie Berkholz is a veteran technology leader with 23 years of experience building platform, product and research organizations that bridge open source, cloud-native engineering, and AI. Currently SVP Platforms, Architecture & Research at Sabre, he leads ~275 technologists driving platform modernization, GenAI experimentation, and large-scale migrations from mainframe to Kubernetes-backed architectures. He has repeatedly transformed delivery through platform-as-product thinking and DevOps-driven culture change—cutting costs and time-to-market while launching new SaaS offerings and developer-first products. A former Percona and Docker executive, founder of Platify Insights, and longtime Gentoo contributor, he blends hands-on systems engineering (including low-level build fixes in Gentoo’s science overlay) with senior product and GTM leadership. His background in computational biology and formal ML training gives him an unusual fluency in taking academic research into production-grade analytics and AI products.
22 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Biochemistry and Biophysics, Ph.D., Biochemistry and Biophysics at Oregon State UniversityB.S., B.A., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry; Journalism minor, B.S., B.A., Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry; Journalism minor at University of RichmondRobbinsdale Armstrong Senior High SchoolCertificate, Digital Product Management, Certificate, Digital Product Management at University of Virginia Darden School of BusinessCertificates, Entrepreneurship & Business Foundations, Certificates, Entrepreneurship & Business Foundations at The Wharton SchoolBiochemistry, Chemistry, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Biology at Gustavus Adolphus CollegeCertificate, Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification, Certificate, Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and Classification at Stanford University
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Github Skills (10)
gentoo10
build-system10
science10
ebuild10
gcc10
patch10
configuration-file9
configurations9
mercurial6
cvs6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gentoo/sci
Apr 2006 - Mar 2012
[MIRROR] Gentoo Science Overlay
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Donnie's commits focus on applying patches and fixing build issues within the Gentoo Science Overlay repository. The contributions involve resolving compilation problems related to specific compilers (GCC) and addressing missing patches for software packages. They show a strong understanding of build systems and the ability to debug and correct software configurations for scientific applications. This also includes fixing double definitions and library linking problems.
ebuildgentooscienceoverlay
dberkholz/proteingeometry
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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