Mark Bernhardt is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience and a deep background in systems and site reliability engineering at Google, evolving from Windows systems administration into backend and DevOps work. He blends infrastructure expertise—Active Directory, System Center, VMware, RHEL—with software engineering skills in Python, Go and C#, and pragmatic scripting (PowerShell, Bash) to automate and harden large-scale environments. At Google he contributed to SRE tooling and to the popular Glazier open-source project, adding build flags, driver support, and code quality improvements that streamlined Windows imaging workflows. Known for diagnosing complex production issues and architecting reliable monitoring and deployment solutions, he pairs strong communication skills with a curious, theatre-trained creativity that helps him learn new technologies quickly. Based in New York, he brings cross-domain pragmatism: from enterprise AD and SCCM migrations to cloud-native reliability and tooling.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Associates of Applied Science, Computer Network Systems, Associates of Applied Science, Computer Network Systems at ITT Technical Institute
Stow High School
Bachelor of Arts, Theatre, Bachelor of Arts, Theatre at The Ohio State University
A tool for automating the installation of the Microsoft Windows operating system on various device platforms.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:17 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the Glazier project by implementing new features and refactoring existing code. They added functionality to the build process, specifically the lab pin and is_laptop pin, and integrated flags for configuration. The user also addressed code quality by replacing pytype 'Text' with 'str' and improved logging practices. Furthermore, the user added support for driver actions within the live OS.
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 5 months
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