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Software and Mechanical Consulting for Commercial and Government Clients
We design, build, and operate mechanical and IT products.
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Welcome to Forward Deployed Designs
Meet our team leaders.
  • Thomas McMerty
    CEO and Owner
    Former US Army Special Forces. CS graduate from NC State. 6 years of experience in IT with startups, such as Vultr, and personal startups, with projects deployed in Ruby on Rails, React, Golang, Flutter, and WordPress.
  • Taylor Gronka
    CTO
    Senior Software Engineer and Architect with 16 years experience developing end-to-end solutions for startups and the Fortune 100 companies Cisco and MetLife. Recently worked at Bowhead with USACE for HPC applications. ECE from Duke University.
    >25 years reading software security e-zines.
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