Connor Forsyth
Engineering Manager at Prolific
Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolConnor Forsyth is an engineering manager and founder with 11 years of hands-on full‑stack and DevOps experience, now leading engineering at Prolific. He specialises in taking ambiguous product ideas through to reliable, customer-focused SaaS delivery and has repeatedly modernised legacy systems and QA practices to restore delivery confidence and reduce operational noise. Connor has built and scaled platforms across AdTech, IoT, and safety tech, co-founded startups, and implemented pragmatic infrastructure using AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and test-driven workflows. He combines systems-level organisational change—introducing values, performance frameworks and hiring processes—with day-to-day technical leadership, often rolling up his sleeves to implement critical fixes. Notably, he engineered a custom expression language for a bootstrapped financial modelling product and has a track record of cutting cloud spend while realigning product roadmaps to measurable business outcomes. Based in Scotland, he thrives where technical craftsmanship and human leadership intersect.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Computational Physics Physical Sciences, Computational Physics Physical Sciences at The University of EdinburghKnox Academy
English
Github Skills (160)
programming-language10
testing10
esoteric-language10
test-framework10
mongodb-memory-server10
rsa10
assert10
runner10
laravel10
ava10
stack-based10
tdd10
unit-testing10
test-runner10
php10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
randomstate/orm
Sep 2017 - Apr 2024
Laravel Doctrine Quick Integration. Includes Custom Repositories with Container Wiring.
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch, 19 tags in 6 years 8 months
repositoriesphpnettelaravel-doctrinedoctrine
randomstate/laravel-api
Sep 2017 - Sep 2021
Laravel Integration for randomstate/api.
Contributions:23 pushes, 4 branches, 17 tags in 4 years
laravel-packagelaravelphpapi
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