Eric Bernier
Senior Software Engineer at Nokia
Cranston, Rhode Island, United States
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Top SchoolEric Bernier is a senior software engineer with two decades of industry experience and a 12-year track record of leading and shipping backend systems for networking, finance, and defense. Currently at Nokia, he designs and maintains Python-based DDoS mitigation software using FastAPI, Kafka, Postgres, and AWS, drawing on prior leadership roles where he guided small teams and shaped architecture. He has built high-throughput data pipelines and APIs in C#, Java, and Python that handled hundreds of gigabytes daily for mission-critical clients such as the US Coast Guard. Eric pairs hands-on coding with empathetic team leadership—conducting regular 1:1s, code reviews, and secure design reviews—and has driven CI/CD and migration efforts across multiple organizations. Outside work he’s a husband, dad, hobbyist game developer, and creator, signaling a continual appetite for building things beyond his day job. Based in Cranston, RI, he brings practical cross-stack expertise and a knack for translating complex operational needs into reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, 3.58 GPA, B.S., Computer Science, 3.58 GPA at University of Rhode Island
c#, java, sql, haxe, python
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Github Skills (41)
git-repo9
docpad8
haxelib7
ckan-extension7
adobe6
backup6
ckan6
asp-net6
static-site6
neko6
haxeflixel6
catalog6
accessdenied6
dll6
react5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ericmbernier/flixel-addons
Jul 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:22 pushes in 6 years 3 months
ericmbernier/OtterTutorial
Feb 2014 - Sep 2014
Contributions:13 commits in 7 months
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