Cassidy Forbes
SysOp at Ravelry
Salem, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCassidy Forbes is a seasoned SysOp and web engineer with 13 years of professional experience, best known for co-creating and operating Ravelry, a self-hosted community web app that grew to about a million monthly active users without investors and with a two-person team. Based in Salem, Massachusetts, Cass combines hands-on full-stack development, systems operations, and performance tuning—skills honed at firms from ITA Software to finance-focused startups. They favor pragmatic, user-focused engineering, demonstrated by rebuilding software people actually wanted at Ken’s Foods and keeping Ravelry resilient and independent for years. Comfortable across networking, application engineering, and high-performance optimizations, Cass also values collaborative, not-for-profit work with long-time peers. Colleagues know them as down-to-earth (local friends call them Cass) and quietly tenacious, preferring sustainable ownership of systems over flashy exits.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Dover Senior High SchoolBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (110)
logos10
svg10
branding10
search-api10
iconic10
api10
json10
fonts10
font-awesome10
svg-font10
woff10
sparkpost10
full-text-search10
google-fonts10
css10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
ravelry/sphinx
Aug 2015 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 3 months
pythonsearchsphinx-searchsphinx
caseyf/webcomicname-mashup
Jan 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:20 PRs, 37 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 7 months
comicsmash
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