Craig Forrester
Lead Senior Cloud Engineer at RapidScale Powered by Logicworks
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolCraig Forrester is a Lead Senior Cloud Engineer with 10+ years building and operating large-scale Windows and cloud infrastructures, currently focused on Azure and AWS at RapidScale/Logicworks. He brings deep hands-on expertise in IaaS/PaaS, ARM templates, Ansible, PowerShell/DSC, and version-controlled Infrastructure as Code, honed through roles supporting Fortune 500 global environments. Craig’s background as a long-time Windows server lead and cloud operations engineer gives him a practical blend of legacy datacenter know-how and modern cloud automation. He has repeatedly led global technical governance and server automation initiatives, translating complex enterprise requirements into repeatable, auditable cloud services. Based in the Detroit area, he pairs operator instincts with scripting and tooling skills to reduce toil and improve reliability across multi-domain, multi-cloud environments.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Science at Lancaster Bible College | Capital Seminary & Graduate SchoolAssociates, Associates at Oakland Community College
English
Github Skills (72)
windows10
commonmark10
arm10
command-palette10
markdown10
powershell10
azure10
pandoc10
converter10
windows-server10
powertoys10
session-manager10
browser9
ansible9
markup-language9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
craigforr/craigforr.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jul 2025
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
craigforr/ansible_multicloud
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:120 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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