Melanie Forbes
Cloud Architect at VT Group (VTG)
Sterling, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Forbes is a Cloud Architect and software engineer with nine years of multidisciplinary experience blending mechanical engineering, robotics, and cloud-native systems. Based in Sterling, VA, she designs and implements AWS ECS/EKS infrastructure and DevSecOps pipelines while applying C/C++ and Python expertise to ML, computer vision, and control-system problems. Her background in finite element analysis, materials testing, and digital image correlation gives her an uncommon ability to bridge physical-system validation with AI-driven software solutions. She has hands-on robotics experience integrating ROS, SLAM, and OpenCV from academic projects and early-career lab work, and she brings that systems-thinking to defense-oriented cloud architectures at VTG. Colleagues rely on her to translate rigorous engineering requirements into auditable, production-ready cloud deployments that support intelligent systems.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Latin, Physics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Latin, Physics at University of WyomingAssociate of Science - AS, Engineering, Associate of Science - AS, Engineering at Northern Virginia Community CollegeBachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mechanical Engineering at George Mason University
English, Latin, Italian
Github Skills (32)
aws10
prism9
typescript9
cloud-infrastructure9
cloud-development-kit9
infrastructure-as-code9
petsc9
finite-element-analysis9
cmake8
jenkins-plugin8
jenkins-pipeline7
jenkins7
scanning6
trilinos6
terraform6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mdforbes500/finite-element-model
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 6 PRs, 91 pushes in 26 days
matlabgeorgespringbuilt-inmason
mdforbes500/short-crack-model
Jul 2018 - Aug 2018
A short-crack finite element model incorporating both crystal plasticity and phase-field modeling of the crack geometry.
Contributions:64 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
dealiiprismphase-fieldfatigue-analysiscrystal-plasticity
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