Patrick Beh-forrest
Director Of Software Engineering at Bitwarden
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolPatrick Beh-forrest is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over two decades of hands-on and managerial experience, currently serving as Director of Software Engineering at Bitwarden. He has progressed from senior systems engineering and development roles into technical leadership, repeatedly driving CI/CD, automated testing, and Agile practices to speed delivery and reduce deployment times. Patrick has managed and scaled distributed teams—both local and offshore—across enterprise and product-focused organizations, balancing system architecture responsibilities with people leadership. His background in electrical and computer engineering underpins a strong systems perspective applied to secure, large-scale software and operations. Notably, he has a track record of implementing lifecycle tooling (TFS, TeamCity) and improving deployment efficiency by measurable margins, demonstrating a results-oriented approach to modernization. Based in Doylestown, PA, he combines technical depth with operational discipline to move complex projects from concept to production.
4 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electrical and Computer Engineering at Lafayette College
Github Skills (51)
kotlin10
javascript10
docker10
bootstrap10
electron10
jetpack10
browser-extension10
safari10
okta10
typescript10
dotnet10
signalr10
mobile-application10
sql-server10
firefox10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/clients
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Bitwarden client apps (web, browser extension, desktop, and cli).
Contributions:38 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 6 months
browser-extensioncliwebextensionjavascriptbitwarden
bitwarden/server
Dec 2021 - May 2025
Bitwarden infrastructure/backend (API, database, Docker, etc).
Contributions:15 reviews, 5 branches, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
backenddatabasedockeraspnetcoreaspnet
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