Summary
Gordon Forsythe is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager based in Scottsdale, Arizona, with over 11 years of professional experience and 20+ years working with PHP. He has led and built web and RESTful applications across startups and major firms, currently holding senior engineering and management roles at GoDaddy and Pagely. Comfortable across the full stack, his hands-on background spans PHP, Node.js, Go, Python, JavaScript, and AWS, with deep experience in server-side APIs, job queuing, email sync, and intranet tooling. Known for moving between individual contributor and leadership roles, he combines pragmatic architecture decisions with day-to-day coding discipline. An early adopter of diverse frameworks (Silex, ZF2) and a long-time PHP practitioner, he brings institutional knowledge that helps stabilize and evolve legacy systems into modern services. Outside of titles, he’s the kind of developer who still values shipping reliable, maintainable code while mentoring teams to do the same.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Electronics, Associates Electronics at High Tech Institute