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Liam Gallagher

Former Director of Engineering · Forge Dev Tools

Portland, OR, US

Builds developer-tools engineering teams and the open-source communities around them, from zero to thriving ecosystem.

13+ years experienceEnglish

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13yrs

Operating leadership

Senior roles

Areas of expertise

5.0★

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What Liam is known for

Liam Gallagher has spent 13 years building developer tools and the engineering teams behind them. As Director of Engineering at Forge Dev Tools he grew the core team from 6 to 45 and shipped a CI/CD product that reached 80,000 active developers and a thriving open-source community of 400+ contributors. Earlier, at Basalt Systems, he led the SDK team whose libraries became the default integration path for thousands of downstream projects. Liam advises developer-first startups on engineering culture, open-source strategy, and how to grow a team that developers genuinely want to join.

Expertise & sectors

Core expertise

Developer tools Open-source strategy Engineering culture Community building DevEx

Sectors

Developer Tools Open Source

Experience

Director of Engineering · Forge Dev Tools

2019 — 2024

Staff Engineer, SDK · Basalt Systems

2014 — 2019

Ways to work together

15-min intro

Free

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Open-Source Strategy Sprint

$4,800

A two-week engagement to define your open-source positioning, contribution model, and community growth plan.

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DevEx Office Hours

$750 · 60 min

One-hour call on developer experience, onboarding friction, or growing a developer-tools engineering team.

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What people say about Liam

“Liam helped us turn a neglected GitHub repo into a real community. Contributions tripled and it became our top acquisition channel.”

NCNina Costa · Co-founder, Quill Labs

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