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Thomas Forbes

Taking a gap semester from Georgetown to deal with health issues and work on personal projects.

Previously, I dropped out of my final year of high school to work at bestever.ai in sf.

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

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You get paid for the seven and a half hours a day you put in but you get your raises and promotions on what you do in the other sixteen and a half hours

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Projects

Email app

releasing soon...

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

Previously

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.

Patch

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)

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