Thomas Forbes

Currently working at Evalyn. Previously, I left high school to work at bestever.ai in sf, and finished my high school coursework in my freetime.

My favorite feeling is finishing a long day of work and having something I can point to and say "I made that".

My second favorite feeling is to jump out of plane 🪂

What I've been up to

📙 Favorite Quotes

172 quotes from Readwise

People don’t want accuracy. They want certainty.

Same as Ever by Morgan Housel

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Email app

releasing soon...

Current email apps aren't excellent. I didn't like that so I am building my own for fun.

Full Stack Software Engineer at Evalyn

2025/09 -> present

Built the web app from scratch as the primary engineer. It supports sales agent evaluations across 20 regional divisions of a national homebuilder.
Worked directly with clients and editors to shape the dashboard and make reviewing audio less tedious.
Moved the app from Firestore to Convex, including the schema, API layer, and tooling to migrate and verify the data.
Rebuilt the AI evaluation pipeline with automatic retries, resumable workflows, and failure reporting.

Student at Georgetown University

2024/08 -> 2025/05 in DC

Software Engineer at Bestever

2023/06 -> 2024/08 in SF

Full-stack engineer. Finished my high school coursework in my freetime.

Summer 2022 in Dublin

Ireland's leading young builder accelerator.
Built an Anki like study tool with automated flashcard generation using gpt-3 (yes I'm an unc)

Bronze medalist in 2023, 2022 and top 15 in 2021 and 2020

Don't forget to sleep well tonight