Forrest Brazeal
Co-Founder at freeman + forrest
North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Brazeal is a founder and developer-focused storyteller with 10 years of experience building cloud platforms, developer marketing, and community programs for companies from startups to Google Cloud. He led technical storytelling and developer media at Google Cloud and previously scaled content and community at A Cloud Guru, driving viral campaigns and triple-digit content growth. Earlier roles as a cloud architect and team lead produced production-grade cloud apps and programs that saved enterprises significant compute and deployment costs. Now co-founder of freeman + forrest, he applies performance influencer marketing to help enterprises communicate effectively with developer audiences. Forrest pairs technical depth (M.S. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech) with creative content—cartoons, songs, and conference series—that translate complex cloud concepts into memorable experiences.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (10)
cert10
gcp8
aws8
fundamentals7
azure7
amazon-web-services4
backend4
recurring4
aws-lambda3
serverless2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
forrestbrazeal/forrestbrazeal.github.io
Dec 2018 - Dec 2022
Tech webcomic: cloud, enterprise, startup humor
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 114 pushes in 4 years
webcomicenterprise
cloudresumechallenge/projects
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
The official home for the Cloud Resume Challenge and other real-world projects that help bridge the gap from cert to cloud job
Contributions:6 reviews, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
gcpbridgefundamentalscloudjob
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