Forest Hoffman

Software Engineer. Musings about Go, TypeScript, and Node.js. My thoughts are my own.

Austin, TX Joined on Jan 2, 2017 forestjhoffman@gmail.com https://foresthoffman.com

Education

Associate of Science (2017)

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he/him

Work

Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal

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GitHub Repositories

bot

A Go package for building Twitch.tv IRC chat bots. Previously "twitchbot".

Go • 22 stars

bfs

A JS package for the asynchronous reading and requiring of JavaScript modules without touching the host file system.

TypeScript • 2 stars

common

A Go package full of helpful DRY logic common to most Go services. ⚙️🔨

Go • 1 star

election

A Bully-Election Algorithm implementation in Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_algorithm

Go • 1 star

loggy

A Go logging package with customizable verbosity. Letting you hack through those logs and see only the information you need. 🌲🪓

Go • 1 star

rwb

A Go package for intercepting HTTP(s) response values before sending them to the request client.

Go • 1 star

Skills/Languages

Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Docker, Git

Currently hacking on

👍 Full-time positions
👍 Remote first organizations
👍 Engineer or Senior Engineer positions
👍 Go, TypeScript, or Node
👍 RESTful APIs
👍 Microservices
👍 Distributed systems

Available for

I am currently searching for full-time and 100% remote opportunities. I am not open to relocation.

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