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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

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📙 Favorite Quotes

172 quotes from Readwise

Many people are so worried about looking good that they never do anything great. Many people are so worried about doing something great that they never do anything at all.

Hell Yeah or No by Derek Sivers

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Experience

Full Stack Software Engineer at Evalyn

2025/09 -> present

Building tools for AI-powered sales evaluations.

Student at Georgetown University

2024/08 -> 2025/05 in DC

Studied computer science for a year before dropping out.

Frontend Software Engineer at Bestever

2023/06 -> 2024/08 in SF

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

Patch

Summer 2022 in Dublin

Built an AI study tool at a young builder accelerator in Ireland.

Awards

All Ireland Programming Olympiad

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

Irish Young Economist

IGEES award winner and Gold medalist 2023 (paper). Gold medalist 2022 (paper)
Invited to meet with Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe

Don't forget to sleep well tonight