Barry Forrest
Happily Retired at SME Insights
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBarry Forrest is an accomplished software engineer and solution architect with 14+ years of experience designing resilient, event-driven systems and mentoring teams through real-world constraints. He has repeatedly implemented MassTransit-based messaging architectures with RabbitMQ and Azure Service Bus, coaching teams on long-running sagas and developer-friendly local feedback loops. Barry’s work spans high-throughput transaction systems, microservice migrations, cloud CI/CD pipelines, and verifiable credential proofs of concept for identity platforms. He combines hands-on coding—across .NET, Ruby/Rails, and cloud tooling—with a pragmatic focus on security remediation and operational stability. Based in Dallas, he now enjoys a happily retired role while still advising and leading principal-level engagements. An unexpected through-line in his career is translating lab-style process rigor into software delivery practices that measurably reduce defects and operational costs.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Journeyman Brewer, Journeyman Brewer at Eastfield CollegeCompleted MCSD-VB6 tract; undergraduate work in network administration., Completed MCSD-VB6 tract; undergraduate work in network administration. at Southern Methodist UniversityLyman High
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Github Skills (16)
chocolatey10
powershell-module10
powershell-profile9
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powershell9
git8
hubot6
css6
durandal6
fluentnhibernate6
javascript6
jquery6
knockoutjs6
hipchat4
nodejs3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bforrest/bforrest.github.com
Jan 2015 - Jan 2021
Personal blog site
Contributions:3 PRs, 84 pushes, 12 branches in 6 years
blog-site
bforrest/tapwall
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
tapwall
Contributions:9 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
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