Grant Forrest
Software Engineer at volumetrics-io
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorGrant Forrest is a Principal Frontend Engineer with 12 years of experience building performant, accessible web products from concept through production. He blends product design sensibility with hands-on engineering, having led UI teams, authored shared design systems, and shipped real-time multimedia platforms that scale to dozens of participants. Grant has a track record of turning prototypes into production—founding engineer work that powered PopStage and an open-source virtual meeting product—while integrating WebRTC, Twilio/LiveKit, and resilient websocket sync. He moves quickly without sacrificing craft, mentoring teams in frontend best practices and accessibility while streamlining developer tooling and platform integrations. Based in Raleigh, NC, he thrives at the intersection of UX, real-time systems, and pragmatic architecture, often tackling the hardest cross-team problems like legacy migrations and checkout/analytics rewrites.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
33reputation
4kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (200)
threejs10
css-transitions10
multiselect10
react-spring10
drag10
schema10
pinch10
marching-cubes10
css10
styled-components10
sketch10
side-bar10
editor10
webapp10
storage10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
a-type/graphql-cypher
May 2019 - Jun 2019
A simple but powerful translation layer between GraphQL and Cypher
Contributions:1 release, 66 commits, 2 PRs in 25 days
cyphergraphql
a-type/ui
May 2023 - Jul 2026
My personal component library
Contributions:252 PRs, 737 pushes, 223 branches in 3 years 2 months
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