David Forsythe

Software Engineer at Datadog

Paris, Ile-de-France
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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.
code8 years of coding experience
job10 years of employment as a software developer
bookBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of Southern California
languagesEnglish, French
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Github Skills (10)

datadog10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
hugo9
documentation8
shorthand4
rgba2
postcss2
css2
hex2

Programming languages (2)

JavaScriptGo

Github contributions (5)

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dajofo/hello-world

Feb 2018 - May 2018

Contributions:2 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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dajofo/pricemoov

May 2018 - May 2018

Contributions:10 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
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David Forsythe - Software Engineer at Datadog