John Forstmeier
Lead Software Engineer at PMG
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Forstmeier is a Lead Software Engineer with a decade of experience building data-driven systems and machine learning solutions, currently leading engineering at PMG after senior roles at Shipyard. He blends a background in market intelligence and accounting with hands-on backend engineering, giving him a pragmatic, metrics-oriented approach to scalable production systems. An open-source maker and co-creator of the Heupr platform, he regularly contributes smaller projects and writes about technical topics. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs rigorous technical work with creative pursuits—periodic blogging and a long-form science fiction project—and stays disciplined through lifting, yoga, and improving at chess. Known for moving between research-like data science work and production engineering, he excels at turning exploratory models into reliable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Accounting, Bachelor's Degree Accounting at Penn State University
English
Stackoverflow
1reputation
89reached
1answer
1question
Github Skills (152)
quantitative10
twitter-api10
twitter9
lambda-functions9
statistics9
api9
authentication9
python9
ipfs9
backend9
aws-fargate9
aws-appsync9
ethereum9
aws-lambda9
storage9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
folivoralabs/api
May 2020 - Jan 2021
The API and database :sloth:
Contributions:2 PRs, 293 pushes, 11 branches in 7 months
apifaunadbslothnodejsdatabase
folivoralabs/ui
Jun 2020 - Dec 2020
The user interface :sloth:
Contributions:1 PR, 201 pushes, 6 branches in 7 months
slothjavascriptuser-interfacetoolkit
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