Forest Gagnon
Staff Software Engineer And Tech Lead at LiveRamp
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForest Gagnon is a Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of experience building secure, reliable platform and authentication systems at LiveRamp. He combines hands-on engineering with leadership, having progressed from intern to staff engineer while focusing on APIs, platform security, and access control. Known for creating usable, dependable software and "banishing bugs," he thrives on translating complex security requirements into practical, auditable solutions. A Middlebury College computer science graduate, Forest blends pragmatic engineering with a security-minded perspective that keeps large-scale services both accessible and robust.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Middlebury College
Github Skills (135)
kubernetes10
docker10
paths10
latency9
echo9
hammerspoon9
irc9
signaling9
go9
charts8
api8
ruby-application8
middleware8
lua8
scheduling8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
forestgagnon/senior-seminar-project
Nov 2016 - Mar 2023
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 5 months
forestgagnon/ravager
Aug 2019 - Mar 2022
fast, no-nonsense http load generator
Contributions:18 commits, 3 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 6 months
no-nonsensehttp3nonsenseresumableload-generator
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