David Forsythe is a frontend-focused software engineer with eight years of experience building user-facing web applications from prototype to production. Based in Paris, he currently contributes to Datadog’s Synthetics App and previously led frontend work on high-visibility streaming projects at ekino for Canal+ (including mycanal.fr and OnePlayer). He brings deep practical experience with Backbone.js, SASS-based theming, and complex UI interactions from fintech and media domains, and has a knack for turning design wireframes into maintainable componentized code. Comfortable working across startups and agencies, he pairs product-minded UX work with pragmatic engineering to ship polished, theme-able frontends. An early adopter of CSS tooling, he introduced SASS into multiple teams’ workflows to improve style architecture and maintainability.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Southern California
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