BrandonĀ Forehand
Senior Principal Engineer at Toast
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Forehand is a Senior Principal Engineer based in Seattle with 14 years of professional software engineering experience and a foundation in Computer Science from UT Austin. He has driven architecture and delivery at major product companies including Toast, Square, Moz, and Amazon, specializing in scalable production systems and platform reliability. Known for moving teams toward modern, containerized deployment practices, he contributed DevOps improvements to the open-source Dragnet project by migrating builds from Vagrant to Docker and streamlining setup scripts. Brandon blends deep systems experience with pragmatic engineering leadership, mentoring peers while shipping measurable infrastructure improvements. His background spans research-oriented engineering roles through to senior product-facing technical leadership, giving him a strong grasp of both low-level systems and high-level operational concerns.
14 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Github Skills (9)
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
containerization10
dockers10
build-automation10
cicd10
python8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
dragnet-org/dragnet
Feb 2017 - May 2021
Just the facts -- web page content extraction
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 25 commits, 22 PRs in 4 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Brandon focused on improving the project's build and deployment processes. They updated the build environment by switching from Vagrant to Docker, demonstrating a shift towards containerization. This includes installing necessary dependencies for the project using the new Docker environment. The user also ensured the setup script would correctly set the working directory.
content-extraction
seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples
Nov 2015 - Mar 2018
Mozscape API sample code
Contributions:38 commits, 22 PRs, 31 pushes in 2 years 4 months
apiapi-sample
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