Dave Forgac
Director Of Product Engineering 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
16 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 (60)
eleventy10
python10
python-modules10
jwt10
jose10
azure8
terraform-provider8
terraform8
static-site-generator8
strava-api7
http7
cookiecutter7
azure-resource-manager7
python-requests7
command-line7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pyohio/pyohio-cfp-website
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
PyOhio CFP
Contributions:230 commits, 21 PRs, 207 pushes in 1 year 6 months
pythoncfp
tylerdave/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Feb 2019
Contributions:30 pushes in 4 years
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