Danny Forest

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About Danny Forest

Welcome to my LinkedIn page! Since you've likely seen thousand regular LinkedIn profiles by now, I figured you're up for something more unusual. So here goes: If you browse through my work experiences, you'll have a hard time figuring out where my strengths are. It's really all over the place. During my interview for one of the last contracts I did, the first thing the Technical Director told me was this:"I looked at your LinkedIn profile, and I don't see a fit. Why did you apply?" I greatly appreciated the honesty. The gig was about building a React Native mobile app. There was none of that in my profile. Instead, he found things that related to writing, travelling, coaching, video games, and of course, actual engineering work. I understood the confusion. While I had barely dabbled in React Native, I had a good amount of experience in React and many more years of experience in various types of development. People I had worked with in the past referred me because they knew that no matter the experience I had, there was no way I couldn't deliver. Fast forward to a few months later, they now have a high-quality mobile app they can happily share with their clients. So, what's my LinkedIn profile about? It's not that complicated once you understand this: I'm a highly adaptable and efficient person. I take on any difficult challenge and do everything in my power to make it work as well as it can as efficiently as possible. I'm a huge fan of optimizing resources and processes. I'm a huge fan of learning. I'm a huge fan of getting solid work done. And now the boring but mandatory part: I'm a technologist, polymath, entrepreneur, engineer, and educator who has been a technical founder or co-founder of 8 businesses. I've been a professional software engineer and full-stack developer for 17 years, working on every type of apps. In a nutshell: I’ve built desktop apps, video games (front-end and backend), mobile apps and web apps. I’ve been a software developer, video game programmer, front-end programmer, back-end programmer, network programmer, AI programmer, full-stack developer, lead engineer, game designer, game producer, company founder, writer, public speaker, author of 4 books, photographer, technical learning experience designer, and more. Technical Skills: Javascript, Typescript, ReactJS, React Native, C#, Unity, Python, Ruby, Java, AWS, HTML5, CSS3, RPA, ETL, Microservices, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, and more.