Patrick Beh-forrest
Director Of Software Engineering at Bitwarden
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Beh-forrest is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on and managerial experience, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Bitwarden. He has progressed from senior systems engineering and development roles into technical leadership, repeatedly driving CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile practices to speed delivery and reduce deployment times. Patrick has managed and scaled distributed teams—both local and offshore—across enterprise and product-focused organizations, balancing system architecture responsibilities with people leadership. His background in electrical and computer engineering underpins a strong systems perspective applied to secure, large-scale software and operations. Notably, he has a track record of implementing lifecycle tooling (TFS, TeamCity) and improving deployment efficiency by measurable margins, demonstrating a results-oriented approach to modernization. Based in Doylestown, PA, he combines technical depth with operational discipline to move complex projects from concept to production.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lafayette College
Github Skills (56)
kotlin10
cli10
javascript10
database-api10
docker10
electron10
jetpack10
browser-extension10
safari10
okta10
typescript10
dotnet10
browser10
signalr10
backend-api10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/clients
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).
Contributions:37 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
web-browserclisafarifirefoxbrowser
bitwarden/server
Dec 2021 - Dec 2024
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
Contributions:14 reviews, 5 branches, 2 comments in 3 years
database-apisql-serverdockersignalrdatabase
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