Yehezkel Bernat
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolYehezkel Bernat is a Senior Software Engineer based in Israel with nine years of professional experience specializing in C++ and system-level engineering. He has deep expertise in software design and OOP/OOD, preferring work close to the OS and hardware while maintaining strong high-level engineering discipline. Yehezkel has contributed to firmware and hardware-adjacent projects—most notably improving Thunderbolt support and image validation in the widely used fwupd firmware update daemon—reflecting comfort with embedded systems, CI, and packaging. A former Intel engineer now at Microsoft, he combines validation and low-level firmware experience with production-scale backend development. He also teaches OOP, underscoring a commitment to clear design and mentoring that complements his hands-on technical skillset.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc., Computer Science, B.Sc., Computer Science at Hadassah Academic College
Hebrew, English
Github Skills (11)
c1710
firmware10
thunderbolt10
updater10
embedded10
live-update10
c1110
sys10
updating10
linux9
git4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
fwupd/fwupd
Jan 2017 - Mar 2018
A system daemon to allow session software to update firmware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems Engineer
Back-end Developer & Embedded Systems EngineerContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 169 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yehezkel primarily focused on enhancing the Thunderbolt plugin, which involves interacting with firmware updates and hardware-level details. Their contributions include implementing image validation, handling native mode for Thunderbolt controllers, and addressing compilation warnings, suggesting work on core functionalities and code maintenance. The user also enabled the Thunderbolt plugin in CI and RPM packaging and added descriptions to FwLocation objects.
firmware-updatefirmwaredaemonlinuxupdate
intel/tbtfwupd
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 29 pushes, 16 branches in 11 months
daemonfirmware-updateupdatefirmware
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