Forest Belton is an experienced software engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building web products and backend systems. He has held senior engineering roles at startups and scale-ups—currently contributing at SentiLink and Lyric—bringing practical expertise across frontend and backend stacks from Perl and PHP to modern JavaScript and React. Forest pioneered React adoption at Crowdtilt and has a history of integrating new frameworks into legacy architectures, showing a knack for pragmatic tech transitions. Comfortable across infrastructure and application layers, he combines day-to-day coding with a curiosity for learning and improving developer workflows. Despite a casual GitHub persona, his career reflects steady technical growth and a track record of shipping production software in fast-moving teams.
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