Forrest Brennen
Software Engineering Manager at Meta
Greater Oxford Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Brennen is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 11 years’ experience building and scaling cross-functional teams that deliver real-time C++ and Python ML inference on GPU-powered DNA/RNA sequencers. He has grown engineering groups from scratch, instituted company-wide agile practices, and bridged lab science and product development to take systems from proof-of-concept through deployment and regulatory lifecycle work. Technically hands-on across devops, build engineering, MLOps, and multi-platform release (Windows, macOS, Linux, x86/ARM), he led GPU-accelerated model training, validation, and deployment used in high-impact settings from pandemic response to spaceflight. Now at Meta, he combines people leadership with deep domain expertise in productionizing ML systems and improving developer velocity. An unconventional background in both music and computer science (UC Berkeley) and an MSc from Oxford underpin a collaborative, analytical approach to complex interdisciplinary problems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Music, Bachelor's degree, Music at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Distinction at University of Oxford
Github Skills (52)
guppy10
bam10
wheels10
sequencing10
fasta10
bioinformatics9
api9
throughput9
genomics9
gitlab9
rest-api8
auditing8
python8
dynamic8
rails8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nanoporetech/kmer_models
May 2016 - Sep 2020
Predictive kmer models for development use
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 9 comments in 4 years 4 months
fbrennen/delocate
Nov 2017 - Oct 2019
Find and copy needed dynamic libraries into python wheels
Contributions:17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonpython-wheelswheelsdynamic-librariespython3
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