Forrest Longanecker
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at Persistent Systems
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolForrest Longanecker is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead based in Portland with seven years of experience designing cloud-native, scalable systems and leading engineering teams. He has led cross-functional teams at Persistent Systems and IBM to build and maintain mission-critical SaaS applications, focusing on automation that turns manual workflows into push-button experiences. Proficient across the full stack, Forrest regularly applies Python, Elixir, JavaScript, Bash, Kubernetes, and OpenShift to deliver high-availability infrastructure and developer tooling. He emphasizes mentorship and remote collaboration—running pair programming and rigorous code review cultures that accelerate team growth. His background includes hands-on IaaS API development and building operational automation for 50+ production environments, a sign of both depth in platform engineering and practical ops experience. Outside of work, he’s contributed to civic tech projects like RecordExpunge, showing a commitment to using software for social impact.
7 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Certification Web and Software Development, Web Development Certification Web and Software Development at Bloc
Github Skills (13)
github9
git9
patch8
subversion7
javascript3
thunderbird3
debugging3
wikipedia3
react2
lists2
utilities2
python2
css2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ForrestLonganecker/sendipedia
Apr 2019 - Oct 2019
Wikipedia for sharing outdoor/climbing related information
Contributions:10 PRs, 110 pushes, 27 branches in 6 months
outdoorclimbingsharingwikipedia
ForrestLonganecker/recordexpungPDX
Feb 2019 - Feb 2020
A project to automate expunging qualifying criminal records. This project is done in conjunction with the Multnomah County Public Defender's Office.
Contributions:13 PRs, 118 pushes, 83 branches in 11 months
pythoncountydefenderrecords
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