Forrest Crenshaw
Director, Product Management - Market Growth at F5
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Crenshaw is a product leader with eight years focused on application delivery and traffic management, now serving as Director of Product Management - Market Growth at F5. He progressed through engineering and product roles at F5 after building foundational network and F5 LTM/GTM expertise at Fidelity and USAA, owning automation, orchestration, and BIG-IP product strategy. Forrest blends hands-on networking know-how (iControl, packet capture, VPN, route/switch) with market-driven product leadership, repeatedly translating complex infrastructure requirements into adoption-focused features. Based in Florida, he has a track record of driving operational guidelines and data center designs that scale for large enterprises. Notably, his career path reflects a rare crossover from deep technical engineering to senior product management within the same product family, giving him both credibility with engineers and a strategic view of customer needs.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
MIS Business, MIS Business at Texas Tech University
Github Skills (63)
networking10
bigip10
rhel10
f510
rest-api10
cisco10
imperative10
cisco-ios9
beacon9
ansible9
declarative9
automation9
documentation9
sre9
command-palette9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
focrensh/remote-files
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch, 5 issues in 4 years
f5devcentral/ansible-role-f5_atc_deploy_declaration
Dec 2019 - Jul 2020
Ansible role used to deploy declaratives to F5 Automated Tool Chain services: AS3, DO, and TS
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 8 PRs in 7 months
ansibleas3chainansible-rolerole
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