Forest Vey
Team Lead at Improving
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolForest Vey is a Team Lead and hands-on software engineer with eight years of experience building back-end systems in C/C++ and Java across embedded and cloud environments. Based in Victoria, BC, he combines practical OS-level expertise on BSD, Linux, macOS, and Windows with a strong testing and QA mindset—evidenced by contributions to the OpenSearch SQL project where he implemented and hardened unit and integration tests and fixed JDBC/ODBC edge cases. He regularly prototypes personal automation projects using single-board computers, microcontrollers and hardware modules, translating hardware tinkering into production-quality software. A lifelong learner with a diploma in IT from Camosun College, he balances leadership at Improving with continued deep technical work at Bit Quill and Quester Tangent, consistently pushing for code quality and pragmatic solutions.
8 years of coding experience
Diploma of Education, Information Technology, GPA: 8.6, Diploma of Education, Information Technology, GPA: 8.6 at Camosun College
Github Skills (14)
test-automation10
unit-testing10
javas10
sql10
java10
integration-testing10
amazon-elasticsearch9
elasticsearch-api9
aws-elasticsearch9
querying9
elasticsearchquery9
elasticsearch9
jdbc8
odbc7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opensearch-project/sql
Apr 2022 - Dec 2022
Query your data using familiar SQL or intuitive Piped Processing Language (PPL)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:111 reviews, 14 commits, 33 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Forest primarily contributed to the OpenSearch SQL project by implementing and fixing unit and integration tests for the SQL and PPL functionalities. Their work includes creating tests for match queries, relevance functions, and highlight features. Furthermore, they modified code to handle edge cases in the JDBC connector and for ODBC SSL compliance, indicating a focus on code quality and testing across different components of the project.
sqlppl
Bit-Quill/amazon-timestream-connector-prometheus
May 2024 - Feb 2025
Contributions:55 reviews, 7 PRs, 9 pushes in 9 months
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