Bernard Szabo
Principal Software Engineer at 2U/edX
Fairfield, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolBernard Szabo is a Principal Software Engineer with decades of systems and software experience and a decade in senior engineering and program leadership roles, currently enhancing authoring features for a large Python/React learning platform at 2U/edX. He excels at bridging hands-on implementation with strategic design—writing specs, code, and compliance-driven solutions while operating effectively in cross-functional agile teams. Bernard has a strong track record in resilience engineering and chaos testing, having built Docker-based frameworks, automated incident detection tools, and visibility solutions that hardened high-volume e-commerce platforms. His background spans telecom, multimedia, and large-scale logistics and fulfillment systems, including contributions that enabled multiplant optimization and CI/CD transformation. A rigorous thinker with an MIT PhD in Electrical Engineering, he brings unusual depth in analytical modeling and a proven ability to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, auditable systems. Colleagues rely on him for incremental delivery, time-to-pivot judgment, and bringing hidden operational failure modes to light.
10 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Spanish, French
Github Skills (14)
openedx10
lms10
react9
template-engine9
frontend9
workbench8
java8
html6
refactoring4
testing3
api-manager3
architecture2
edx2
containerization2
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
edx/edx-gocd-synthetic-testing
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:6 PRs, 81 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
edx/codeowners-test-2
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Testing the behavior of CODEOWNERS
Contributions:1 review, 9 PRs, 12 pushes in 5 days
testing
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