Brendan Forster

@shiftkey
Nova Scotia, 🇨🇦
He/him

Rubyist

Node.js

Front-end Developer

Software Engineering

Web Developer

Open Source

Mentor

Coding

Traveler

.NET

Work at GitHub. Have a bunch of neglected OSS projects. Mostly tending to the garden in my spare time these days.

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Resume

May 2018 - Present

Staff Software Engineer, GitHub

Jul 2013 - May 2018

Senior Software Engineer, GitHub

Nov 2009 - Jun 2013

Senior Developer, Readify

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Member of the group that shipped the public beta of the new Issues experience on GitHub, primarily focused on the new Projects feature: • https://github.com/features/issues • https://github.blog/20...

Shipped the first set of rebase flows for GitHub Desktop as part of the 2.0 release https://github.blog/2019-06-05-github-desktop-expands-to-support-stashing-and-rebasing/

Presented at GitHub Constellation in Brisbane about the story behind moving GitHub Desktop to Electron as well as turning it into an open source project

Presented at GitHub Constellation in Sydney about the story behind moving GitHub Desktop to Electron as well as turning it into an open source project