Forrest Tanaka
UI Front-End Engineer at Stanford University School of Medicine
Pleasanton, California, United States
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Top SchoolForrest Tanaka is a UI Front-End Engineer with 12 years of experience building polished, user-focused web interfaces for research and public-facing portals, currently designing the UI experience for the ENCODE and ClinGen sites at Stanford Medicine. He blends a strong software engineering foundation with practical visual design sensibilities honed by a decade of freelance web design and commercial photography. Forrest’s background spans legacy systems to modern responsive front ends, with early engineering roles at Apple, HP, Cisco, and startups informing a pragmatic, systems-aware approach to front-end architecture. Comfortable owning projects from concept through launch, he has a proven track record delivering accessible, data-driven interfaces for scientific communities. Based in Pleasanton, CA, he brings a rare combination of laboratory-facing product work and hands-on creative craft that helps complex genomics data feel intuitive.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
English
Github Skills (40)
san10
genome10
metadata10
temp10
sql10
encode10
database10
integrate9
atlas9
bioinformatics9
diego9
react8
dagre8
gcp8
headlessui8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ENCODE-DCC/dagre-d3
Jan 2015 - Oct 2021
A D3-based renderer for Dagre
Contributions:6 releases, 68 commits, 3 PRs in 6 years 9 months
dagrerenderervisualization
ENCODE-DCC/dalliance
May 2015 - Jan 2019
Interactive web-based genome browser.
Contributions:30 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
genomegenome-browserbrowserweb-basedbioinformatics
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