Jack Forrest
Staff Eng at Shopify
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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SeniorJack Forrest is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and distributed architectures, currently at Shopify after a long run running his consultancy Strange Brew. He has deep hands-on experience in Rust, Go and Ruby, designing microservices on Kubernetes, FHIR integrations for healthcare, and low-latency core services for logistics and embedded systems. Jack blends pragmatic engineering with product-facing design—having led platform maturation as the first backend hire at TrueCoach and architected configurable business-rules engines at League. He also takes technology breaks to stay grounded: spent a year guiding packraft expeditions and volunteering in search-and-rescue, a detail that informs his practical, risk-aware approach to systems design. Based in Boulder, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation (including exploratory LLM integrations) with a track record of shipping robust, production-grade software.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (59)
coercion10
rails-api10
ruby10
api10
rest10
rest-api10
javascript9
component-based9
linux9
nodejs9
ruby-on-rails9
react9
frontend9
js8
macos8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jrforrest/coding-challenge
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:12 PRs, 15 pushes, 13 branches in 2 days
jrforrest/grape
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 3 months
apimicro-frameworkrubyrestrest-like
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