Forrest Collins
Software Engineer at Insight Enterprise
Denton, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Collins is a Full Stack software engineer with 10 years of experience, blending Javascript/Typescript expertise with growing skills in Rust and Python. A former physicist with degrees in condensed matter physics and mathematics, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to web and AI projects and enjoys exploring game design and machine learning in personal work. Forrest has shipped production software at companies like Insight and Republic Finance and prefers building pragmatic, well-tested systems across the stack. Outside of code he’s an active blogger and content creator on programming, diversity, and civic engagement, and he brings that communicator’s perspective back into engineering and community-facing projects.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Mathematics., Condensed Matter and Materials Physics, Mathematics. at University of Oklahoma
English
Github Skills (11)
nodejs9
javascript8
http-client8
ajax8
browser7
xmlhttprequest5
testing3
music2
prepare1
music-streaming1
streaming1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Bashkir15/Opinion
Jun 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:337 commits, 2 PRs, 322 pushes in 9 months
Bashkir15/Portfolio
Jul 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:143 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
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