Forrest Fowler
CEO at Student First Technologies
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Fowler is a CEO and full-stack software leader with 12 years of experience building SaaS platforms and founding tech-forward community spaces in Bloomington, Indiana. He co-founded Student First Technologies, where he led development of Theodore, a single platform managing over $300M in education funding across 15 states, and previously scaled SID3CAR to support products used by over a million users. A passionate coworking and remote-work advocate, Forrest helped grow Cowork Bloomington from a 200 sq. ft. basement operation into a 100+ member entrepreneurial hub housed in a historic mill. He blends hands-on engineering with product and business strategy, focusing on education, finance, and civic technology that drives measurable public impact. Outside work he’s an outdoor-adventure enthusiast who channels Midwestern roots into long-term community and regional economic development.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation, Bachelor of Science, Technology Management and Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation at Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
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Github Skills (15)
decal10
css6
aws-sdk5
aws5
solr5
javascript5
open-source5
nodejs4
blacklight4
ruby3
activeadmin3
sunlight1
api1
ruby-wrapper1
aws-sdk-js-v31
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Sid3car/d3cal
Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
An open source CSS framework for business critical applications
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 14 pushes in 4 years
cssdecalfront-end
michaelscruz/sgo
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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