Forrest Allison
Owner Operator
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarForrest Allison is an experienced software engineer and owner-operator with 12 years building backend systems and developer tools from Bellingham, Washington. He favors "comprehension over configuration," reflecting a pragmatic approach to clear, maintainable architecture and developer experience. As a backend contributor to LunaSec, he has worked on security-focused tooling—implementing AWS utilities, GraphQL/Hasura integrations, session control, and APIs in TypeScript and Go. Running Deep Winter Development, he blends hands-on coding with product responsibility, shipping features and fixes across the stack. Colleagues would note his steady focus on practical security improvements in CI/CD and pull request workflows rather than flashy surface-level changes.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
backend10
back-end-development10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
go9
api8
security8
apidoc8
aws8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
lunasec-io/lunasec
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
LunaSec - Dependency Security Scanner that automatically notifies you about vulnerabilities like Log4Shell or node-ipc in your Pull Requests and Builds. Protect yourself in 30 seconds with the LunaTrace GitHub App: https://github.com/marketplace/lunatrace-by-lunasec/
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 270 reviews, 2344 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Forrest appears to be primarily working on backend functionality, contributing to bug fixes and feature implementations. Their work spans multiple aspects of the backend system, including AWS utilities, hasura-calls and working on session control, with some focus on API and schema. The user demonstrates competence in TypeScript, Go, and GraphQL within the context of this security-focused repository.
log4shellnode-ipcsecurity-scannervulnerabilitiestokenization
light24bulbs/dynamic-skiplist
Feb 2014 - Oct 2018
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 9 months
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