Nick Berardi
Head Of Engineering For Alexa Endpoints Platform
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
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Top SchoolNick Berardi is a seasoned engineering leader with 14+ years of experience building large-scale platform and product engineering teams, currently heading Alexa Endpoints Platform where his org delivers the cross-device foundation for Alexa across app, web, and connected accessories. He has led teams of 50–70 engineers to ship next-generation Echo devices and to evolve mobile and distributed systems that synchronize millions of devices while integrating real-time AI and SaaS capabilities. Known for balancing rapid innovation with reliability, he has a track record of improving release velocity, cutting costs, and raising uptime metrics across consumer-facing services. A hands-on technologist who still contributes to open-source projects, he’s worked on integrations like HomeKit and high-performance video automation in Scrypted and has improved native HTTP client behavior on iOS. Beyond product impact, he invests in the next generation—funding scholarships, supporting a student engagement center his family founded, and serving on education-focused boards. Based in Washington, D.C., he combines entrepreneurial roots with decades of engineering management to scale both systems and teams that make technology useful for millions.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Science and Technology, BS Information Science and Technology at Penn State University
English
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Github Skills (54)
json10
alex10
javascript10
ios10
dropdown-menu10
jquery10
mysql10
homekit10
typescript10
http-client10
entity-framework10
ado-net10
parsing10
typescript-types10
google-maps10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
anaisbetts/ModernHttpClient
Oct 2013 - May 2014
HttpClient implementations that use platform-native HTTP clients for :rocket:
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:18 commits, 4 PRs, 4 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily focused on improving the iOS implementation of the `modernhttpclient` library. They addressed "bad URL" errors by correctly encoding URIs. The user also updated the code by removing redundant classes. In addition, the user refactored code to support progress reporting during downloads, implementing progress bars in the test app and adding interfaces.
implementationshttp-clientplatform-nativehttpclientrocket
koush/scrypted
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Scrypted is a high performance video integration and automation platform
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 8 commits, 24 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nick primarily contributed to enhancing the Scrypted platform by integrating new sensor types and expanding HomeKit support. The user added functionalities like `NOXSensor` and `PM10Sensor`, and updated sensor bindings in `homekit/src/types/thermostat.ts`. They also worked on supporting `swing` for fan controls and refactored parts of the code base, including `sdk/types/scrypted_python/scrypted_sdk/types.py`, and improved compatibility with Alexa.
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