Short bio
CS & Math @ Northwestern. Regeneron Science Talent Search Scholar '25. I'm a software engineer who cares most about the parts of a system that keep it correct: queues and workers, idempotent writes, checkpoints that make retries safe, and tests that catch failures before users do.
Most recently I was an AI Agent Intern at ByteDance (Dreamina & CapCut), building data pipelines and scheduled runtimes for the strategy team. Before that I helped build a product from zero at an early-stage startup as one of its first two engineers, owning work from the React frontend to the backend workers and AWS deploys. I also research LLM agent–based search and recommendation at Northwestern's Delta Lab.
In my free time, I photograph sunsets and the Milky Way. Always happy to talk about systems, products, or applied AI. Reach me at forrestchai2029@u.northwestern.edu.