Douglas Forster is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience based in San Francisco, currently building products at Airtable where he has served in engineering and formerly led security efforts. His background spans early platform work at Microsoft, independent iOS development, and hands-on product engineering—giving him a rare blend of large-company discipline and startup agility. At Airtable he moved between software engineering and head-of-security responsibilities, signaling strong cross-functional trust and an ability to drive both feature delivery and security posture. A Cornell computer science graduate, he pairs solid academic foundations with practical experience shipping reliable systems. Colleagues would describe him as someone comfortable navigating both code and organizational risk, often bridging product, engineering, and security priorities.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Cornell University
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