Euan Forrester
Senior Software Developer at OpenDNS - now a part of Cisco
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolEuan Forrester is a Senior Software Developer with eight years in web application engineering and nine years of game development experience, currently building reporting features for Cisco Umbrella in Vancouver. He brings deep expertise in C++ and Java, strong mathematical foundations (linear algebra, trig, calculus), and a proven ability to optimize for memory and CPU across nine platforms from Linux to PS1–PS3 era consoles. Euan has shipped complex AI systems and gameplay features on multiple AAA titles, led technical teams, and contributed editorially and as an author to the AI Game Programming Wisdom book series. His background spans backend services at Amazon and analytics platforms at Ayogo, demonstrating a rare blend of systems-level performance tuning and cloud-based reporting. Outside engineering he pursues creative work—creator of the Evidence of Trail Fairies photography project—reflecting an eye for detail that surfaces in both code and composition.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, First Class Honours, Computer Science, B.Sc, First Class Honours, Computer Science at University of Calgary
Github Skills (71)
jdownloader10
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internet10
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nintendo-ds10
sega10
flash10
mister10
converter10
genesis10
geo10
megadrive10
nes10
decrypt10
ps10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
euan-forrester/photo-recommender
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
A system that recommends photos based on previous photos you liked
Contributions:206 PRs, 219 pushes, 211 branches in 1 year 9 months
previousflaskpythonphotos
euan-forrester/vue-cli-plugin-s3-deploy-cleanup
Jun 2020 - May 2022
A vue-cli plugin that helps cleanup old build artifacts from S3 by tagging them for later deletion
Contributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 11 months
clivue-cli-pluginvue-clideploymentdeploy
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