Timothy Foster

• Built poke5e.app, a web application used by over 45,000 people for managing teams of creatures in a table top game.
• Achieved over 30,000 views through technical writing on topics including web accessibility, web components, and frontend best practices.
• Using a semi-autonomous AI workflow, built disneybounding.com and published my findings on AI's coding capabilities and limitations.
• Composed reusable web components with thousands of weekly downloads, published at components.auroratide.com.

• As tech lead, architected an AI search feature on custom client data which accelerated their product development by over a week.
• Led a team of five React developers in creating an interactive, fully offline-compatible guidebook for packaging machines and robots.
• Released an accessibility-audited and compliant website that thousands of people have used to order compost bags.
• Architected a pipeline for collecting, processing, and visualizing millions of data points on a device with no access to internet resources.
• Built a native mobile app for visualizing the live video, audio, and locational feeds of teams of over 50 emergency personnel.

Co-Tech Lead - Healthcare Client

• Led the design of a Domain Specific Language to bridge communication between the business and developers, shortening the development lifecycle by 40 days.
• Revamped the client's data pipeline by introducing a horizontally scalable message queue for processing of claims in parallel, making the system 90% faster.
• Proposed and implemented an architecture that reduced the number of claims our queue needed to process from billions to millions.
• Presented a live view into our data pipeline to the client CEO and CTO, built using Javascript and Express connected to our Kotlin REST API.

Trainer in China/India - ThoughtWorks University

• Mentored 18 entry-level developers and career changers in the fundamentals of agile delivery, test-driven code, and industry software principles.
• Created a visualization of the curriculum which doubled the program's capacity for trainees, enabling the trainer team to identify redundancies.
• Engaged a few dozen trainees in optional sessions about creativity and received feedback about the success of the techniques within their teams.

Frontend Tech Anchor - Home Mortgaging Client

• Published the client's first online origination experience, integrating an isolated React app into the existing Ruby on Rails site to decouple their pipelines.
• Accelerated our deployment to production by four weeks after I introduced Pact contract testing and API stubbing to the team.