Cory Forsstrom
Staff Software Engineer at Rust
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCory Forsstrom is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building native applications in Rust, currently advancing core projects at Rust. He combines systems-level Rust expertise with a strong UI sensibility, contributing notable improvements to the Iced GUI library and building realtime terminal tools like tickrs that showcase practical, user-focused design. Prior to full-time engineering he built analytical foundations in business intelligence and revenue optimization, giving him a rare mix of data-driven product insight and low-level engineering craft. Cory is skilled at turning complex visualization and interaction requirements into polished, performant native features—zoomable image panes, candlestick charts, and intuitive keybindings among them. Based in the United States, he brings cross-disciplinary experience from finance and operations into software design and performance trade-offs. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability while delivering measurable end-user value.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS Finance General, Bachelor of Science - BS Finance General at University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Github Skills (12)
tui10
user-interface10
rust10
gchart10
front-end-development10
chartjs10
widgets10
graphic10
charting10
charts10
elm9
keybindings9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
tarkah/tickrs
Feb 2020 - Aug 2022
Realtime ticker data in your terminal 📈
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 9 reviews, 168 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Cory made significant contributions to the `tickrs` repository, primarily focused on the user interface and application features. The user implemented keybinding updates, added a help panel to the application, and refactored aspects of the stock widget draw logic. They also added and refactored several chart-related features including the display of volumes and candlestick charts. They also added options like toggling pre/post market data and a more intuitive keybinding.
realtimetickerrustticker-dataterminal
iced-rs/iced
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
A cross-platform GUI library for Rust, inspired by Elm
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:66 reviews, 72 commits, 62 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Cory primarily contributed to the development of UI components within the Iced GUI library. They focused on adding and refactoring the image viewer/pane widgets, which includes the ability to zoom, pan and display images. The user also improved the display of text within the picklist and the tooltip components and introduced additional functionality to handle window visibility.
user-interfacewidgetgui-libraryrustelm
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