Forest Peterson
Staff Engineer at Palo Alto Data Group
Palo Alto, California, United States
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Top SchoolForest Peterson is a Staff Engineer and Stanford-affiliated researcher who blends nine years of hands-on engineering with deep experience in workforce innovation, construction technology, and public-sector governance. He leads technical work at Palo Alto Data Group while directing the Workforce Lab at Stanford’s CIFE, where he studies how field technology and labor practices interact and translates that research into deployable tools and education programs. He founded a regional Dual-E VDC teachers certificate to build a pipeline from K–12 to community college and has shepherded alumni into faculty positions and doctoral study. Forest pairs field experience as a former union concrete laborer and project engineer with policy roles — serving on city and county boards to shape infrastructure, flood protection, and labor standards oversight. He is known for converting ethnographic insight into measurable, auditable systems for workforce and construction projects. Based in Palo Alto, he operates at the nexus of research, industry practice, and civic stewardship to drive scalable, accountable innovation.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Stanford University School of Engineering
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Github Skills (9)
vector6
string-matching6
windows6
casting6
compiler-errors6
char6
trie6
xml-parsing6
api1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
wagetheft/Wage_Theft_Report
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 reviews, 41 commits, 171 pushes in 9 months
DataKind-SF/datadive_201608_wage-theft
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:31 pushes in 1 day
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