Phillip Berndt
Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolPhillip Berndt is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon with nearly two decades of professional experience and more than 25 years coding, combining deep GNU/Linux and full‑stack web expertise with low-level embedded and systems work for AWS EC2. He holds a Ph.D. in mathematics and brings a researcher's rigor to software and distributed system architecture, with published work in numerical methods and fluid mechanics informing practical engineering decisions. At Amazon he owns CI/CD infrastructure and contributes to kernel and OS components for next‑generation EC2, emphasizing automation and robustness. A longtime open-source maintainer—known for a significant rewrite of the autorandr display manager—he balances C/C++ and Python fluency while optimizing for constrained, embedded environments. Based in Dresden, he uniquely bridges academic numerical analysis and production systems engineering, often applying functional-analysis thinking to algorithmic and performance tradeoffs.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat. Mathematics, Dr. rer. nat. Mathematics at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German, French
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Github Skills (21)
python10
xrandr10
configuration-management10
linux9
google-maps9
file-upload9
regular-expression9
edid9
sh6
script6
nginx6
shell6
http6
regex6
django6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
phillipberndt/autorandr
Nov 2013 - Jan 2023
Auto-detect the connected display hardware and load the appropriate X11 setup using xrandr
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 9 reviews, 326 commits in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Phillip's commits primarily focus on developing and refining the `autorandr` project, a tool for managing display configurations. They contributed significantly to the Python-based rewrite of autorandr, implementing core functionalities like profile management, virtual profile support, and EDID matching. Moreover, the user addressed various edge cases, including handling edge cases for xrandr options and making the code more robust against potential parsing failures. They improved user-facing aspects by updating the help text, and providing a flexible mechanism for users to define properties.
xrandrauto-detectx11smartphonetablet
phillipberndt/Uebungszettel
Sep 2010 - Feb 2014
Contributions:177 commits in 3 years 5 months
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