Forrest Beck
Owner at Durham Academy
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Beck is a seasoned IT and network professional with 11+ years of experience designing, securing, and operating networks for K-12 education organizations and now founding datashutl, a SaaS focused on data integrations for private schools. He combines hands-on network engineering across Cisco, Aruba, and Ubiquiti with systems and virtualization expertise (XenServer), JAMF macOS fleet management, and full‑stack scripting/development in Swift, Python, PHP, Bash, and Java. As Durham Academy’s Network Manager he also founded and mentors FIRST Robotics Team 6502, teaching students mechanical, electrical, and AI-driven robotics—an unusual blend of enterprise IT and hands-on STEM education. Forrest is pragmatic about security and automation, often delivering custom tooling to streamline operations and integrations for complex school environments.
11 years of coding experience
Associate of Science - AS, Networking, Associate of Science - AS, Networking at Wake Technical Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Information Technology at East Carolina University
Github Skills (24)
lightspeed10
react8
api8
react-native7
lifecycle7
sis7
golang7
removal7
pos7
mattermost7
adp7
collaboration7
monorepo7
python6
realms4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
beckf/Arduino
Oct 2017 - Apr 2022
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
beckf/veracross_api
Jun 2019 - Jun 2022
Simple Python library for connecting to the Veracross API
Contributions:4 releases, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
python-libraryapipython
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