Bob Forgey
Staff Software Developer at General Atomics Aeronautical Systems
Valley Center, California, United States
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Top SchoolBob Forgey is a Staff Software Developer with over 11 years of embedded systems experience and a multi-decade track record designing firmware, build and configuration management, and automated testing across Linux, VxWorks and legacy RTOSes. He has repeatedly improved product reliability—from rewriting Linux-based software and automated test infrastructure to implementing robust firmware download and real-time upgrade mechanisms for set-top and aerospace systems. Comfortable in C/C++ and lower-level assembly as well as scripting languages (Perl, Python, Tcl), he blends hardware-level debugging (JTAG, MPEG) with pragmatic tooling (Subversion, Git, ClearCase) to accelerate development. A longtime consultant and founder of Grumpy Dog Consulting, he pairs hands-on engineering with systems thinking and a knack for squeezing reliability and testability out of constrained embedded platforms. Based in Valley Center, CA, Bob’s work often lives quietly inside mission-critical devices, where his emphasis on diagnostics and build automation pays dividends in operational uptime.
11 years of coding experience
27 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
41reputation
17kreached
3answers
1question
Github Skills (41)
metadata9
renaming7
java-bytecode7
ubuntu6
nvidia6
eclipse6
serial-port6
multi-gpu6
android6
linux6
bash6
java6
multiple-monitors6
nikola5
optparse5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sesamemucho/pi-sdcard-setup
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
sesamemucho/socketsender
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Send diffent-sized IP packets to various places on a schedule.
Contributions:2 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
packetsschedule
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