Forrest Heller
Software Engineer at Apple
Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China
Summary
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Top SchoolForrest Heller is a software engineer with nine years of cross-domain experience building mobile (iOS), embedded firmware, server, and desktop systems, currently developing hardware-focused software at Apple. He brings deep low-level expertise—PCB bring-up, manufacturing debugging, and firmware security—paired with high-level skills in networking, protocol design, and macOS/iOS performance optimization. Forrest has shipped products at startups and large companies alike, including multi-year work at Occipital and consulting that fused embedded and mobile solutions. Based in Shenzhen, he offers a global perspective on hardware-software integration and is reachable directly at forrest@forrestheller.com.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Colorado Boulder
Github Skills (11)
windows-server9
wxwidgets9
single-file8
linux8
http-server8
server8
windows7
cpp6
cross-platform6
distribute2
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hellerf/EmbeddableWebServer
Nov 2016 - Feb 2022
Cross-platform, single .h file HTTP server (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X)
Contributions:84 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 5 years 3 months
wxwidgetswindows-serverlinux-windowsmac-oswindows
hellerf/single_file_libs
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
cpplinuxc-plus-pluscross-platformsingle-file
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