Dwayne Forde
Co-Founder & CTO at Mantle
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDwayne Forde is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder & CTO with over two decades of engineering experience building full-stack and cloud-native solutions across startups, finance, and entertainment. He has led large, distributed engineering organizations of 180+ people and managed substantial cloud infrastructure programs for major banks and government agencies. Previously a Senior Director at VMware/Pivotal following Xtreme Labs’ acquisition, Dwayne has deep expertise in Cloud Foundry, CI/CD, and platform engineering. He remains hands-on—contributing to open-source projects like pivotal/LicenseFinder by modernizing CI/CD, adding Go module support and automating Docker release flows. A frequent speaker (including TEDx Silicon North), he’s known for introducing novel patterns in emerging tech domains and translating them into production-ready systems. Based in Toronto, he combines startup grit with enterprise-scale delivery and an eye for pragmatic innovation.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (25)
docker10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
automation10
yaml10
automations10
jquery9
concourse9
css9
bundler9
google-chrome9
html9
testing8
github-ci7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Developer
DevOps Engineer & Backend DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 32 PRs, 86 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Dwayne primarily focused on improving the CI/CD pipeline for the project, automating testing and release processes. They refactored the CI pipeline configuration (YAML files), added and updated testing jobs for different Ruby versions, and implemented automated tasks related to Docker image building and deployment. In addition, they introduced Go Module support, indicating backend development contributions related to Go. The user also made code changes related to Ruby code style through RuboCop.
licensesdependencieserlangruby
osis/me-dot-com
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:1 PR, 12 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 2 months
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