Barry Forrest
Principal 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 CollegeSouthern Methodist UniversityLyman High
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Github Skills (18)
powershell-module10
prompt9
powershell-profile9
chocolatey9
powershell8
fluentnhibernate6
knockoutjs6
css6
jquery6
git6
hubot6
durandal6
javascript6
hipchat4
telegram4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bforrest/beerscraping
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
beerscraping
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 11 months
nodejs
bforrest/tapwall
Mar 2017 - Jul 2022
tapwall
Contributions:9 PRs, 31 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 5 months
linux
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