# Forrest Wilkins > Sr. Software Engineer at RevoText Location: Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/forrestwilkins Software engineer with over 10 years of hands-on experience in developing both frontend and backend services, as well as testing, debugging, and leading projects in a group context where I’ve employed Agile methodology and frameworks such as SCRUM and Kanban. I have over 7 years of experience with Node.js based technologies, such as Express and React, and 6 years of experience with Ruby on Rails. Skilled in building responsive interfaces that adapt seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Software Engineer @ RevolutionaryText Jan 2026 – Present | Raleigh, NC Build and maintain a real-time legal tech platform for remote court reporting and courtroom streaming. Develop full-stack features using React, Ruby on Rails, Node.js, and GraphQL; integrate WebRTC-based audio/video workflows; and deploy scalable infrastructure on AWS. ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Captura Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | Raleigh, NC At Captura, I worked with microservices using NestJS and TypeORM, and handled build pipelines and infrastructure with Docker, Jenkins, and AWS, gaining significant DevOps experience. On the front end, we utilized Redux Toolkit and Chakra UI. I provided on-call support, wrote raw SQL queries to manipulate live production data when needed, and collaborated closely with our customer support team to ensure deliverability and address user concerns. Additionally, I gained leadership experience by serving as a project lead, conducting interviews, and onboarding new candidates. ### Web Developer @ Oracle Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Austin, Texas, United States While working at Oracle, I gained experience working on enterprise level IDaaS and cloud based authentication services. Oracle had an extensive inhouse component library that I was fortunate enough to become intimately familiar with, along with incredibly detailed documentation on their various REST APIs that I worked with as well. Oracle essentially followed every best practice I’m aware of, including exhaustive testing, unit tests for every feature added, mandatory changelog entries, CI/CD with Jira and BitBucket, as well as taking full advantage of TypeScripts more advanced type safety features. ### Full Stack Developer @ MemberHub.com Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States MemberHub is a membership website company geared primarily towards PTA’s. I worked with both React and Ruby on Rails to help deliver a quality user experience to their customers. We used React hooks and functional components in combination with Context API for the frontend which I thoroughly enjoyed. Working one on one with the QA team and marketing also helped improve much of my knowledge regarding Agile methodologies and frameworks such as SCRUM and kanban. I’ve received a letter of recommendation as well from MemberHub that you may receive upon request. ### React Developer @ N&F Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States N&F studios was a web design and consulting firm where I worked closely with clients and designers to deliver quality products and services. I also managed the entire development process, from planning to deployment. Some of the key libraries and frameworks utilized for our projects included React, Next.js, and MongoDB. My colleague and I also employed design and collaboration tools such as Figma and Trello to help ensure that our clients received the best quality design possible, and also that our workflow was organized and efficient. One of our projects included building our own typographic scale, which you can find here: typeratio.com. ### MERN Stack Developer @ Forrest Web Co. Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh, NC I rebuilt my portfolio website at the beginning of May 2018 with the MERN stack. Upon rebuilding my portfolio website with MERN, I’ve gained expertise with React-Redux and a strong understanding of state store, middleware, action creators, reducers, and containers. All of the posts in the blog section of my website are saved using MongoDB and Express within the backend of my React app, with everything saved externally via MongoDB Atlas. ### Ruby on Rails Developer @ GSC Surveying Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh, North Carolina, United States GSC Surveying is a land surveying company who uses drones to collect topographic data. I built their website using Ruby on Rails, employing all of the same software used for the Simplr templating site listed below that I’ve developed over my time building custom web apps for my clients. ### Ruby on Rails Developer @ Chris Peterson Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Smithfield, North Carolina Simple, static landing pages definitely make up a large portion of my freelance web design work, although I’ve built built inventory management sites, as well as custom social networks. Chris Corleone (stage name), or Chris Peterson, is a local musician who I built a simple, static landing page for and still maintain and add features for as well. ### Account Specialist and Software Developer @ IXL Learning Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Morrisville, North Carolina, United States IXL Learning provides an online supplemental tool designed for teachers to be better able to meet the needs of every student. My responsibilities while working at IXL included gathering, sorting, organizing, and recording data, information, and documents pertaining to various schools and teachers accounts. I also helped develop software with AutoHotkey to automate the company's email correspondence. ### Ruby on Rails Developer @ El Heroe Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Smithfield, North Carolina We built an online spanish newspaper for local, spanish speaking business. The website also functioned as a social network with instant messaging that automatically detected the language of each user and translated accordingly with Bing Translator. ### Sales Associate @ RadioShack Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Smithfield, North Carolina, United States From working at RadioShack, I am now very comfortable with not only working in a team but dealing with the public, whether it be on a customer basis or merely relaying advice and information to customers. ## Education ### Computer Science Johnston Community College Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/forrest-wilkins-3b978b77 - GitHub: http://github.com/forrestwilkins - Website: https://forrestwilkins.com - Website: https://twitter.com/wilkins_dev --- Source: https://flows.cv/forrestwilkins JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/forrestwilkins/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22