Brad Robel-forrest
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrad Robel-forrest is a senior software developer based in Seattle with 12 years of experience designing and shipping low-latency, highly-available network-layer protocols and 24/7 services. He combines deep systems and networking expertise—from TCP/UDP, IPSec, and 802.1X to higher-level protocols like HTTP and OAuth—with strong proficiency in Go, Python, C, Ruby/Rails, and NodeJS. He has a track record of architecting durable, low-maintenance products that earned customer loyalty and industry recognition, and he’s comfortable owning on-call rotations and complex operational stacks (Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK). An active contributor to open-source tooling, he improved multipart form handling and routing in the popular apipie-rails API documentation project, reflecting attention to real-world developer ergonomics. Known for clear technical communication and mentoring, he thrives at the intersection of protocol design, production reliability, and pragmatic engineering.
12 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Western Washington University
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (8)
api-documentation10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
ruby10
testing9
logging6
python6
subprocess6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Apipie/apipie-rails
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
Ruby on Rails API documentation tool
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Brad contributed to the Apipie-Rails project by implementing and refining features related to API documentation generation. They focused on enhancing the handling of multipart form data, enabling the documentation tool to accurately reflect and display complex request bodies. Furthermore, the user addressed routing issues, allowing routes without format extensions to be correctly processed. They also added nested multipart hash support, improving how Apipie handles form data.
ruby-on-rails
BitPonyLLC/huekeys
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Control the keyboard backlight on System76 laptops
Contributions:72 commits, 35 PRs, 95 pushes in 1 month
backlightlaptopskeyboardkeyboard-backlightsystem76
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