Coby Forrester
Software Engineer at LightBox
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolCoby Forrester is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently shaping web-scale products at LightBox (the UrbanFootprint team acquired in 2025) and based in Chicago. He specializes in full-stack web development, blending frontend craft with robust backend and DevOps practices to ship reliable, scalable systems. At 14Four, he led backend and DevOps for clients including Mountain Dew, Pepsi, and Rockstar, building GraphQL APIs on AWS with Node.js and Docker and accelerating deployments through CI/CD pipelines. He has hands-on experience with Vue/Nuxt and React/Next frontends and holds a BS in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz, with additional exposure to Python, C++, Kafka, and Linux. His varied background also includes internships at Activate Learning USA and the Naval Postgraduate School, reflecting a practical, problem-solving approach across teams and technologies.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Monterey Peninsula CollegeUniversity of California Santa Cruz
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Github Skills (69)
graph9
terraform8
aws8
terraform-module7
infrastructure7
hashicorp7
infrastructure-as-code7
aws-lambda7
terragrunt7
hcl7
eclipse6
openjdk6
lambda6
declarative6
pyramid6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cobyforrester/ouiplusplus
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Contributions:88 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
14four/skills-assessment
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
The mighty skills assessment for front-end developer candidates
Contributions:2 PRs in 3 years 1 month
front-end-developercssjavascriptmightyfront-end
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