Grant Forrest
Principal Frontend Engineer at Progress ShareFile
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGrant Forrest is a Principal Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, accessible web products from concept through production. He blends product design sensibility with hands-on engineering, having led UI teams, authored shared design systems, and shipped real-time multimedia platforms that scale to dozens of participants. Grant has a track record of turning prototypes into production—founding engineer work that powered PopStage and an open-source virtual meeting product—while integrating WebRTC, Twilio/LiveKit, and resilient websocket sync. He moves quickly without sacrificing craft, mentoring teams in frontend best practices and accessibility while streamlining developer tooling and platform integrations. Based in Raleigh, NC, he thrives at the intersection of UX, real-time systems, and pragmatic architecture, often tackling the hardest cross-team problems like legacy migrations and checkout/analytics rewrites.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science with Game Development Concentration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science with Game Development Concentration at North Carolina State University
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Github Skills (200)
threejs10
css-transitions10
multiselect10
react-spring10
drag10
material-ui10
visual-studio10
sortable10
schema10
pinch10
tidy10
marching-cubes10
nodejs10
mongodb10
css10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
a-type/graphql-arangodb
Jul 2019 - Dec 2020
A query translation layer from GraphQL to ArangoDB's AQL query language. Reduce the number of DB queries per GraphQL operation.
Contributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 69 commits in 1 year 4 months
queryoperationtranslationquery-languagegraphql
a-type/grantforrest-dev
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
Personal Website
Contributions:14 PRs, 69 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 2 months
react
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