Summary
Forest Turner is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and mobile applications from San Francisco. He specializes in Ruby, JavaScript/React, C#, and Java, and has led or contributed to over nine fast-paced projects at ISBX including robotics monitoring portals, 3D mapping virtual tours, and enterprise React/TypeScript backends for clients like BrainCorp, Petco/Wag!, and Red Bull. A disciplined practitioner of test-driven development and constant refactoring, he focuses on performance and clean, maintainable code across frontend, backend, and iOS/Android stacks. Comfortable owning features end-to-end, he brings real-world experience with React-virtualized/DeckGL, TypeORM/Nest, DynamoDB, and cloud observability. Outside of engineering he’s an avid competitor—enjoying golf, deep sea fishing, softball, LAN parties, board games, and poker—which reflects his collaborative, team-focused approach and appetite for tactical problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at California State University, Long Beach
App Academy
English