Forrest Eastland
Senior Front End Software Engineer at Kasasa
Austin, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Eastland is a Senior Front End Software Engineer based in Austin with eight years of experience building user-focused web applications for SaaS, media, and government clients. He specializes in modern JavaScript and TypeScript stacks—particularly Vue, React, Nuxt, and Redux—and blends front-end craftsmanship with full-stack skills in Node, databases, Docker, and TDD. Forrest has led teams and shipped major rewrites and feature hubs that improved performance, UX, and business metrics, including modernizing Metacritic/TV Guide and replatforming government apps. His background in project management and customer-facing roles gives him a practical sense for product outcomes and cross-functional collaboration. Outside core engineering, he mentors learners (as a bootcamp instructor) and has a history of inventing bespoke algorithms and tooling to solve unique product problems.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp Computer Science, Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp Computer Science at The University of Texas at AustinUniversity of Texas at San Antonio
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (20)
displays7
herokuapp6
programming-tools5
happy5
calculator5
react4
flutter4
mongodb4
python3
firebase3
javascript3
java3
sky3
full-stack3
css2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
eastman81/homeowner-rater
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
An app to rate homeowners and see if you would like to work for them on their projects.
Contributions:16 PRs, 38 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 2 months
flutter
eastman81/eastman81.github.io
Aug 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
cssjavascriptreacttypescript
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