Forrest Loomis
Senior Software Engineer at Jehovah's Witnesses
Manassas, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Loomis is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD systems that prioritize reliability and developer velocity. He has led platform-as-product efforts at Docker and Cloudily—shipping Build Cloud from scratch and extending Backstage, Kubernetes, Terraform, and GitHub Actions to make internal developer experiences first-class. Forrest combines hands-on engineering (Python, AWS serverless, DynamoDB) with a knack for turning hackathon experiments into production features like docker init and a Docker Hub Terraform provider. He also mentors distributed teams on software lifecycle best practices and has a background delivering custom e-learning and automation tools, reflecting an unusual blend of developer tooling and education-technology experience. Based in Manassas, VA, he thrives on owning problems end-to-end and removing hidden complexity so teams can move faster and safer.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Cum Laude, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science Cum Laude at Shepherd University
English, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (86)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cybercyst/go-api
May 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:16 PRs, 59 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 5 months
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cybercyst/go-scaffold
Jan 2023 - Jun 2024
Contributions:10 PRs, 51 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 5 months
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