Forrest Tanaka
UI Front-End Engineer at Forrest Tanaka
Pleasanton, California, United States
Summary
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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 (32)
san10
genome10
temp10
database10
gcp9
atlas9
diego9
bioinformatics9
relational-databases8
encode8
accessibility8
headlessui8
tailwindcss7
vue7
nextjs7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
IGVF-DACC/igvf-ui
Feb 2022 - Jul 2026
The Next.js-based UI portion of IGVF-DACC that works with igvfd
Contributions:1 release, 830 reviews, 877 PRs in 4 years 6 months
nextjs
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
dagre
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