Summary
Sterling Forest is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building reliable, user-focused full-stack systems across healthcare, e-learning, and enterprise cloud platforms. He has a proven track record of improving performance and reliability—doubling email distribution throughput and maintaining 100% site uptime for a year—while architecting CI/CD and Azure infrastructure to support disaster recovery. At Microsoft he strengthened security posture and built comprehensive test suites that caught failures earlier in the lifecycle, and he’s equally comfortable optimizing frontend UX with React and accessibility-minded libraries. A mathematics graduate from UC Santa Cruz, Sterling combines rigorous, analytical problem-solving with pragmatic engineering practices like TDD and modular component design. Based in Kirkland, WA, he favors cross-functional collaboration and standards-driven development to deliver scalable, maintainable software.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Spanish, Japanese, English