Graham Forest
Principal Operations Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolGraham Forest is a Principal Operations Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 14+ years of hands-on experience building and sustaining Linux-first infrastructure focused on reliability, repeatability, and simplicity. He has led operations and security initiatives at scale across roles from Systems Administrator to Principal Operations & Security Engineer, currently driving platform resilience at Lytics. Known for diagnosing and resolving complex, cross-stack incidents, he blends deep technical troubleshooting with pragmatic automation to reduce toil. His career includes long tenures that reflect both operational stewardship and an ability to evolve processes as systems grow. Graham favors clear, auditable solutions and has a track record of making infrastructure predictable rather than proprietary. Outside the day job he brings the mindset of a consultant who can translate business needs into durable, low-friction operational practices.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Lane Community College
Github Skills (111)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vitaminmoo/go-iapclient
May 2019 - Mar 2025
A Google Cloud Platform Identity Aware Proxy authentication library for Golang
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 11 months
golanggcpproxygoogle-cloud-platformauthentication
urbanairship/tablesnap
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 PRs, 2 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 1 month
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