Eric Forgy
Founder at CavalRe
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolEric Forgy is a founder and senior finance professional with over two decades of cross-disciplinary experience building risk, capital management, and DeFi platforms from San Jose. He combines deep quantitative training (PhD-level electrical engineering, physics background) with hands-on product and startup leadership, having led ALM, investment risk, and digital insurance ventures across Asia and the US. As founder of CavalRe | Multiswap he is translating traditional finance techniques into scalable decentralized capital markets, drawing on prior roles at institutions like AIA, ING, Capital Group and MIT Lincoln Laboratory. Eric pairs rigorous numerical and algorithmic instincts—evident in past ultra-fast analytics and open-source contributions to Julia's HTTP library—with a founder’s focus on team culture, operational efficiency, and turning complex models into board-ready decision tools.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science - BS, Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Physics at California State University, Fresno
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Github Skills (6)
http10
websocket10
back-end-development10
julia10
api-design8
mbedtls5
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaWeb/HTTP.jl
Jan 2018 - Feb 2018
HTTP for Julia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 30 PRs, 166 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on enhancing the HTTP library for the Julia programming language. They introduced and removed logging functionalities. Furthermore, they revised documentation and adjusted the server-side implementations, including handling HTTP requests and WebSocket upgrades. Finally, the user refined existing code, such as adjusting the handler arguments and modifying the logic for upgrade checks.
julia
JuliaFinance/Instruments.jl
Feb 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:4 releases, 28 commits, 19 PRs in 1 year 4 months
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