Forest Hoffman
Software Engineer. Musings about Go, TypeScript, and Node.js. My thoughts are my own.
Education
Associate of Science (2017)
Pronouns
he/him
Work
Senior Software Engineer @ PayPal
GitHub Repositories
bot
A Go package for building Twitch.tv IRC chat bots. Previously "twitchbot".
Go • 22 stars
bfs
A JS package for the asynchronous reading and requiring of JavaScript modules without touching the host file system.
TypeScript • 2 stars
common
A Go package full of helpful DRY logic common to most Go services. ⚙️🔨
Go • 1 star
election
A Bully-Election Algorithm implementation in Go https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bully_algorithm
Go • 1 star
loggy
A Go logging package with customizable verbosity. Letting you hack through those logs and see only the information you need. 🌲🪓
Go • 1 star
rwb
A Go package for intercepting HTTP(s) response values before sending them to the request client.
Go • 1 star
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Skills/Languages
Go, TypeScript, Node.js, Docker, Git
Currently hacking on
👍 Full-time positions
👍 Remote first organizations
👍 Engineer or Senior Engineer positions
👍 Go, TypeScript, or Node
👍 RESTful APIs
👍 Microservices
👍 Distributed systems
Available for
I am currently searching for full-time and 100% remote opportunities. I am not open to relocation.
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