Glynn Forrest
Principal Software Engineer at Self-employed
Sister Bay, Wisconsin, United States Other
Summary
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Top SchoolGlynn Forrest is a Principal Software Engineer with 14 years of experience, currently shaping infrastructure and backend tooling at Roblox while running Backbeat Software, a consultancy focused on Symfony, HashiCorp tooling, and SaltStack. He brings deep hands-on expertise in infrastructure automation—evidenced by substantive contributions to the saltstack/salt x509 state module, where he refactored certificate management and added integration tests to improve usability and reliability. Glynn combines engineering leadership with developer productivity work, helping teams ship faster and operate more securely at scale. Based in Sister Bay, Wisconsin, he pairs a pragmatic DevOps mindset with a founder’s perspective on delivering client outcomes. An accomplished freelance percussionist before the pandemic, he retains a creative, performance-oriented approach to teamwork and problem solving.
14 years of coding experience
Master of Music - MMus, Timpani & Percussion, Distinction, Master of Music - MMus, Timpani & Percussion, Distinction at Royal Conservatoire of Scotland
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
infrastructure-as-code10
file-management10
certificate10
saltstack10
cert10
x50910
python10
testing9
cloud-manager5
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Jul 2017 - May 2020
Software to automate the management and configuration of infrastructure and applications at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Glynn primarily contributed to the `saltstack/salt` repository by modifying the `x509` state module, rewriting parts of it for enhanced usability and more informative error messages. Their work involved refactoring certificate management functionality, including private key and certificate generation and renewal, and correcting state behavior for self-signed certificates. Additionally, the user addressed various issues related to certificate properties and file handling within the `x509` state, adding integration tests to validate changes.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
glynnforrest/dotfiles
Jun 2012 - Oct 2022
The emacs configuration of a vim convert.
Contributions:797 commits, 144 pushes, 27 branches in 10 years 5 months
emacsemacs-configurationemacs-lispvim
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