Michael Forcella
Senior Research Support Data Scientist
Village of Ellenville, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Forcella is a Senior Research Support Data Scientist with 11 years of experience building full-stack and mobile applications grounded in ecology and environmental research. Based in Ellenville, NY, he leads development of the Lake Observer app and manages large water quality databases (NALMS/AWQMS), bridging field science and scalable software solutions. His background spans Android/iOS, PHP Laravel, and WordPress, and he pairs hands-on frontend work with backend and database stewardship. Unusually for a developer, he also has practical field experience—from deploying environmental sensors to organic farming—that informs robust, user-focused tools for scientific data collection.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at State University of New York at New PaltzBS, Biology, BS, Biology at SUNY New Paltz
English
Github Skills (31)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mForcella/rasBuoy
Jan 2017 - Apr 2020
Contributions:42 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
mForcella/crabagain
May 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:111 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 10 months
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