Forrest O
Founding Engineer at Cuttle Labs, Inc.
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
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RockstarForrest O is a founding engineer and interactive designer with 13 years of experience building creative, accessible web tools and parametric design software from Helsinki. He blends front-end craft (HTML5, SVG/Canvas, React) with back-end reliability, contributing to notable open-source flow-based projects like NoFlo and the Flowhub UI. As founder of Meemoo and Cuttle Labs he focuses on hackable, community-centered tools that make digital fabrication and creative coding more approachable for artists and kids. His work at Webflow and Flowhub sharpened his full-stack instincts—shipping UI features, build tooling, and backend fixes that improve developer workflows. Forrest brings a maker’s mindset informed by CNC/CAD and digital-cutting platforms, turning interactive design constraints into elegant, testable systems. He’s equally at home writing automation tests and crafting SVG graph editors, often bridging UX and engineering in unexpected ways.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, Japanese
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Github Skills (27)
javascript10
coffeescript10
jquery10
css10
graph10
graph-database10
networking10
webpack10
svg10
front-end-development10
flow-based-programming10
html10
nodejs10
graph-datastructures10
testing9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
flowhub/the-graph
Oct 2013 - Jul 2016
SVG custom elements for FBP graph editing and visualization. Used in noflo/noflo-ui
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:534 commits, 58 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Forrest primarily worked on implementing UI elements and features using HTML custom elements for graph editing and visualization, suggesting front-end development. They were involved in creating HTML structure for components like the graph editor, search card, and node card, which are key parts of the user interface. Furthermore, they were working on making the connections for the edge drawings, drawing inspiration from the component library.
reactsvgelementsnoflograph
noflo/noflo-ui
Sep 2013 - Aug 2017
NoFlo Development Environment
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:260 commits, 2 PRs, 44 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Forrest appears to be a full-stack developer, primarily contributing to the user interface of the NoFlo development environment. They made code changes to both the front-end (HTML and JavaScript) and back-end (CoffeeScript) aspects of the project. Their contributions included enhancements to the user interface, adding features like an iframe preview and component editor, as well as making modifications to the build and deployment processes using Grunt.
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