Founder / Software Engineer · Forest
Jun 2019 - Dec 2023

Bootstrapped, team of 3 engineers · forest.host · Product later acquired

  • Co-built a developer-focused cloud hosting and deployment platform from concept to production
  • Built zero-config Git-based deployment workflows, Git integrations for GitHub/GitLab/Bitbucket, public API functionality, and deployment automation
  • Owned full-stack and infrastructure work across React, Node.js, CI/CD, LXC/LXD containers, deployment orchestration, backups, rollback systems, SSL, and environment management
  • Scaled the platform to 1,000+ users and 10,000+ deployments while balancing architecture, infrastructure cost, reliability, and maintainability
  • Product was later acquired