Dan Forest
Distinguished Engineer II at GEICO Tech
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Forest is a Distinguished Engineer with 11 years of experience building and leading infrastructure and fleet-management systems, now guiding on-premises hardware inventory and monitoring at GEICO. He combines hands-on engineering—rewriting monitoring stacks, introducing Rust for correctness and performance—with strategic leadership that shifts team practices, reduces cost, and improves developer velocity. At Meta he scaled hardware telemetry and transformed a monolithic system into a modular, data-centric architecture for millions of servers; at Criteo he drove cross-disciplinary network and NoSQL initiatives that cut equipment spend and simplified multi-datacenter operations. A mentor and teacher, he regularly authors design docs, runs knowledge-sharing sessions, and coaches senior and early-career engineers toward robust system design. Based in the Washington DC–Baltimore area and grounded in formal training in computational engineering and math, he brings a rare blend of systems-level depth and practical product-focused execution.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Engineer's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at CY TechBachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Mathematics and Computer Science at CY Cergy Paris UniversitéMaster's Degree Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering, Master's Degree Computational and Software Techniques in Engineering at Cranfield University
French, English
Github Skills (39)
user-friendly10
dse10
datastax-enterprise10
scalable10
cookbook9
datastax9
bug-tracker7
cassandra7
analyzer7
linter7
agent7
database6
taiga6
ruby6
apache6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dpanth3r/biggraphite
Aug 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:95 pushes, 24 branches, 1 comment in 1 year
criteoworking-copy
dpanth3r/cassandra-chef-cookbook
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
cookbookdseagentcassandraapache
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