Paul Bernhardt
Director Of Software Engineering at Bettermode
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolPaul Bernhardt is an engineering leader and principal-level developer with 14–16 years of experience building and scaling backend, platform, and developer-facing systems used across 1,300+ venues in 50+ countries. He’s led organizations from hands-on IC to Director/VP roles, driving platform modernization, compliance (SOC 2), and transitions to cloud-native infrastructure while still stepping in to unblock high-risk technical work. Paul is known for developing technical leaders, instituting TDD and security-first practices, and architecting durable data and SDK platforms like the Mappedin Sync and Venue Format. He thrives in ambiguity, translating product needs into long-lived technical direction and improving developer velocity through tooling and standards. Currently focused on AI-led and agentic development at Bettermode, he combines strategic vision with a willingness to get his hands dirty. A former developer evangelist, he has a knack for turning complex integrations and 3D/spatial concepts into pragmatic SDKs and developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.CMP.(HONS.) SSP COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Cognitive Science, Computing, B.CMP.(HONS.) SSP COGNITIVE SCIENCE, Cognitive Science, Computing at Queen's UniversityHighschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Eastwood Collegiate Institute
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Github Skills (48)
android-sdk10
discord9
kotlin9
discord-bot9
sdk9
api9
api-documentation9
swift8
rest-api8
android8
java8
nodejs8
discord-js8
ios7
child-process7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
MappedIn/platform-api
Jan 2016 - Feb 2019
API Documentation and Samples for accessing MappedIn APIs
Contributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 20 PRs in 3 years 2 months
rest-apiapiapi-documentation
MappedIn/podspec
Feb 2016 - Nov 2021
The repo for MappedIn's podspecs
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 5 years 9 months
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