Forest Welch
Information Technology Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForest Welch is an Information Technology Consultant and full-stack software engineer with 8 years of experience building user-centric web applications and taking startups from 0 to 1. He’s shipped large-scale internationalization efforts, rebuilt and maintained critical internal tools that saved millions, and helped grow teams and offices while mentoring and hiring dozens of engineers. Comfortable across Next.js, React libraries, RTK Query, and performance-driven front-end work, he blends product-focused engineering with pragmatic tooling and admin workflows. A linguistics BA and polyglot, Forest leverages deep communication skills and mindfulness coaching to translate complex technical concepts into clear, actionable outcomes for customers and teams. His background includes unusual real-world problem solving—from running accounting for a cat beach sanctuary to building escape rooms in Japan—which surfaces in creative product ideas like a media app to combat analysis paralysis. Based in San Francisco, he pairs global perspective and empathy with hands-on delivery to build meaningful, human-centered software.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Development, Full Stack Development at App AcademyBachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics at University of Pennsylvania
English, american sign language (asl), French, Portuguese, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
react10
angular10
ember9
sass-variables5
switch3
nintendo3
javascript2
wii2
wiiu2
3ds2
homebrew2
sass2
nintendo-3ds1
intl1
devkitpro1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nwelchr/moving-on
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:76 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
nwelchr/bop
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
A single-page music-streaming app inspired by Spotify.
Contributions:218 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 3 months
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