Greg Bernhardt
Owner at Fancy Nerd Design
East Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Bernhardt is a design-driven entrepreneur and UX leader with nearly two decades building and scaling software companies and products, and a background in hands-on development. He co-founded WhiteCloud Analytics and led its product and UX to millions in sales and a successful exit, then built and managed a UX team of five at Relias responsible for products used by millions. Greg combines deep UX craft—user research, testing, analytics-based optimization—with practical engineering chops, contributing to notable open-source projects including Rails and developer tooling like selecta and personalized dotfiles. His work has earned multiple U.S. patents and real-world impact in healthcare analytics where clients credited his designs with saving lives. Based in Rhode Island, he continues to run a freelance design firm and seeks roles that span the full UX discipline from research to product delivery.
19 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6 / 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.6 / 4.0 at Purdue University
Github Skills (23)
ruby-rails10
text-editor10
vimscript10
fuzzy-matching10
testing10
rails10
editor10
ruby10
customisation10
activerecord10
terminal-ui10
mysql9
algorithm9
application-framework9
algorithms9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
garybernhardt/selecta
Oct 2013 - Feb 2018
A fuzzy text selector for files and anything else you need to select. Use it from vim, from the command line, or anywhere you can run a shell command.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:269 commits, 14 PRs, 36 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily focused on developing the core functionality of the "selecta" application, which involves fuzzy text selection within a terminal environment. Their contributions include initial implementation, line order adjustments, and refactoring for improved structure by splitting rendering logic. They introduced features like movement (up/down), backspacing, and word deletion, with a focus on UI enhancements such as highlighting the selected choice. The user also worked on integrating configuration options to influence screen behavior.
a-shellvimfuzzyanywhereshell-command
garybernhardt/dotfiles
Dec 2008 - Apr 2022
~grb. Things in here are often interdependent. A lot of stuff relies on scripts in bin/.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:855 commits, 12 PRs, 79 pushes in 13 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Greg primarily worked on Emacs and Vim configuration files, indicating a strong focus on developer tooling and customization. Their contributions include updates to vimpulse mode for Emacs and various plugin installations and configurations for Vim, such as snippetsEmu, NERDSnippets, and a custom color scheme. These modifications likely enhance the user's coding efficiency and workflow within the repository's development environment.
grbbinlotdotfilesshell
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