Randy Forbes is a solutions architect and seasoned engineering leader with nearly three decades of experience building and rescuing trillion-scale systems, driving product strategy, and mentoring high-performing teams. He combines hands-on technical depth—architecting CI/CD, Kubernetes, and large-scale email delivery platforms—with executive-level product and customer advocacy as a fractional CTPO and CEO advisor. Randy is a patented innovator and published sports data researcher who has contributed open-source tooling and analytical notebooks (notably on NBA play-by-play data) that bridge data science and production engineering. Known for turning around critical incidents for Fortune Global 500 customers, he excels at aligning cross-functional stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he repeatedly blends operational rigor with a customer-centric mindset to accelerate delivery velocity and organizational effectiveness.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business & Information Systems, BS Business & Information Systems at Indiana Wesleyan University
An API Client package to access the APIs for NBA.com
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Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 releases, 10 reviews, 86 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Randy contributed a Jupyter Notebook to the repository, focusing on the NBA Play by Play data. This notebook walks through accessing and analyzing play-by-play feeds, demonstrating data exploration and regex application. The user also refactored the notebook for better clarity, debugging some of the issues related to displaying data. The contributions improve the documentation and demonstrate the use of the NBA API.
An API Client package to access the APIs for NBA.com
Contributions:8 commits, 17 PRs, 387 pushes in 1 day
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