Forrest Wallace
Building software, chasing singletrack.
Experience
Block 2022–Present
Senior Software Engineer · 2024–Present
Leading test platform design and infrastructure for new hardware products. Designed AI-native workflows to accelerate developers and automate toil. Drove Python migration and decoupled release trains across three product lines.
Senior Software Engineer · 2022–2024
Built payment authentication services handling millions of transactions per day. Designed and executed a MySQL to DynamoDB migration at thousands of TPS with zero downtime.
Faraday 2019–2022
Engineering Manager · 2021–2022
Managed 14+ engineers across multiple teams while serving as technical lead. Introduced data-driven product processes and mentored engineers on growth plans.
Software Engineer · 2019–2021
Scaled data pipelines to ~100M predictions per day and rebuilt prediction infrastructure for 10x capacity with zero downtime. Architected sharded PostgreSQL systems and a lazily-evaluated feature store computing multi-hundred-GB datasets in realtime.
Packetized Energy 2018–2019
Software Engineer
Wrote firmware deployed to IoT devices for distributed energy resource management. Built AWS services on Lambda to support the platform.