Forrest Thomas
Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Paxos- Claim this Profile
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Byung Min Sa
Forrest is exceptional. His interest in new technologies and topics always keeps everyone on their toes. Due to his inquisitive nature, he is able to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. On a regular basis, he is the first one in the office and the last one out. With those work ethics, I'm confident he will be a force to be reckoned with in a short amount of time.
Kyle Craft
I had the pleasure of working with Forrest while building out the front end of an AngularJS project together. In addition to having a solid work ethic, Forrest is a fantastic and patient communicator and will be a great asset to any team looking to build a collaborative work environment. Specifically, Forrest went above and beyond by recognizing that I needed help and giving me a thorough walkthrough of the Angular architecture of our app until I had a solid grasp of our front end. My skills as a software engineer wouldn't be the same without Forrest and I couldn't recommend him highly enough to future employers.
Byung Min Sa
Forrest is exceptional. His interest in new technologies and topics always keeps everyone on their toes. Due to his inquisitive nature, he is able to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. On a regular basis, he is the first one in the office and the last one out. With those work ethics, I'm confident he will be a force to be reckoned with in a short amount of time.
Kyle Craft
I had the pleasure of working with Forrest while building out the front end of an AngularJS project together. In addition to having a solid work ethic, Forrest is a fantastic and patient communicator and will be a great asset to any team looking to build a collaborative work environment. Specifically, Forrest went above and beyond by recognizing that I needed help and giving me a thorough walkthrough of the Angular architecture of our app until I had a solid grasp of our front end. My skills as a software engineer wouldn't be the same without Forrest and I couldn't recommend him highly enough to future employers.
Byung Min Sa
Forrest is exceptional. His interest in new technologies and topics always keeps everyone on their toes. Due to his inquisitive nature, he is able to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. On a regular basis, he is the first one in the office and the last one out. With those work ethics, I'm confident he will be a force to be reckoned with in a short amount of time.
Kyle Craft
I had the pleasure of working with Forrest while building out the front end of an AngularJS project together. In addition to having a solid work ethic, Forrest is a fantastic and patient communicator and will be a great asset to any team looking to build a collaborative work environment. Specifically, Forrest went above and beyond by recognizing that I needed help and giving me a thorough walkthrough of the Angular architecture of our app until I had a solid grasp of our front end. My skills as a software engineer wouldn't be the same without Forrest and I couldn't recommend him highly enough to future employers.
Byung Min Sa
Forrest is exceptional. His interest in new technologies and topics always keeps everyone on their toes. Due to his inquisitive nature, he is able to come up with creative solutions to complex problems. On a regular basis, he is the first one in the office and the last one out. With those work ethics, I'm confident he will be a force to be reckoned with in a short amount of time.
Kyle Craft
I had the pleasure of working with Forrest while building out the front end of an AngularJS project together. In addition to having a solid work ethic, Forrest is a fantastic and patient communicator and will be a great asset to any team looking to build a collaborative work environment. Specifically, Forrest went above and beyond by recognizing that I needed help and giving me a thorough walkthrough of the Angular architecture of our app until I had a solid grasp of our front end. My skills as a software engineer wouldn't be the same without Forrest and I couldn't recommend him highly enough to future employers.
Credentials
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AWS Certified SysOps Administrator - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesNov, 2017- Nov, 2024 -
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Amazon Web ServicesNov, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum AllianceJul, 2017- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Paxos
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United States
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Financial Services
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200 - 300 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer (L5)
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Jul 2023 - Present
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Splunk
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer (L4)
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Sep 2019 - Jun 2023
Designed highly scalable CD solution for Kubernetes services utilizing jsonnet and qbec, allowing teams to deploy services to new targets transparently Implemented CI/CD metrics collection service and dashboard, offering granular visibility into throughput and latency of build, test, and deploy pipelines Drove adoption of Terraform based infrastructure deployment for front end applications, abstracting cloud configuration from UI team Led efforts to standardize CI/CD tooling across dozens of teams, enabling optimization of pipeline velocities from merge to in-production including reductions of up to 50% Show less
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Capital One
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer (L4) / Engineering Manager (M3)
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Aug 2016 - Sep 2019
Managed a team of 4 software engineers charged with delivering the web application platform and deployment infrastructure leveraged for hundreds of capitalone.com web pages Spearheaded development of GitOps based CI/CD platform, integrated with internal governance processes to enable innovation and ensure complianceDeveloped a stream processing application for analyzing the health of mission critical systems and determining transitive effect of individual system health in the dependency treeCreated the internal front-end framework used to build pre-authenticated capitalone.com web pages, including the capitalone.com homepage, which attracts 60 million page views per monthArchitected the internal deployment platform responsible for building, testing and delivering capitalone.com web pages to millions of customers with the push of a button Show less
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Software Engineer (L3)
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Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
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Monsoon Company
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer (L2)
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Oct 2014 - Jul 2015
Engineered a full stack web application for Bloomberg, used to track and identify potential trading violations Built a network graph visualization tool for Bloomberg, used to display relationships between individual traders and their internal/external communication lines Developed on a full stack web application for tax offices to manage their customer relationships, profiles, and tax documents Engineered a full stack web application for Bloomberg, used to track and identify potential trading violations Built a network graph visualization tool for Bloomberg, used to display relationships between individual traders and their internal/external communication lines Developed on a full stack web application for tax offices to manage their customer relationships, profiles, and tax documents
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Hack Reactor
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United States
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Higher Education
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100 - 200 Employee
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Software Engineer
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Jun 2014 - Sep 2014
Advanced Software Engineering Immersive Advanced Software Engineering Immersive
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Education
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2012 - 2013
The University of Edinburgh
Master of Theology, Theology in History -
2014 - 2014
Hack Reactor
