Dave Forgac
Principal Engineer at Premier Consulting & Integration
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolDave Forgac is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and scaling web platforms, APIs, and infrastructure across startups and established companies. Based in Cleveland, he blends deep Python and Linux sysadmin roots with leadership roles that progressed from engineering lead to director and principal level, most recently at Premier Consulting & Integration. Dave is known for turning operational pain points into reliable systems—reducing API load, automating deployments, and standardizing microservice interfaces—while also mentoring teams through growth and architecture decisions. He brings a practical, get-things-done mentality backed by a history of creating reusable tooling and templates that speed delivery. An understated strength is his long-running focus on observability and performance tuning born from early hosting and support roles, which continues to inform his platform and infrastructure work.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Case Western Reserve UniversityAAS Computer Information Systems, AAS Computer Information Systems at Delaware Technical Community CollegeBS Web Information Systems, BS Web Information Systems at Wilmington University
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Github Skills (80)
python10
jose10
jwt10
requirements-management10
eleventy10
terraform9
azure8
command-line-tool8
python-client8
metadata8
resource-manager8
terraform-provider8
python-requests8
azure-resource-manager8
api-client7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
tylerdave/bloomsky-api
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
A simple Python client for the BloomSky API
Contributions:1 release, 69 commits, 12 PRs in 4 years 7 months
api-clientapipythonbloomskyobjectmapper
pyohio/pyohio-cfp-website
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
PyOhio CFP
Contributions:230 commits, 21 PRs, 207 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythoncfp
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