Timothy Foster

• Achieved over 30,000 views through technical writing on topics including web accessibility, web components, and frontend best practices.
• Built sifetti.com, a full-stack authenticated web application for efficiently organizing notes, currently integrating feedback received from by beta users.
• Composed three reusable web components with thousands of weekly downloads.
• Discovered, tested, and fixed a bug in the open source SvelteKit web framework.

Co-Tech Lead - Healthcare Client

• Revamped the client's data pipeline by introducing a horizontally scalable message queue for processing of claims in parallel, making the system 90% faster.
• Led the design of a Domain Specific Language to bridge communication between the business and developers, shortening the development lifecycle by 40 days.
• 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.
• Created codebase alignment through workshops about state management with Redux Sagas, testing React with Enzyme, and functional testing with Testcafe.
• Established a model for working as a distributed US/India team, which became a standard across multiple teams on the client.

API Developer - Food Distribution Client

• Enabled the use of state-of-the-art features by upgrading our Postgres database after I proposed a migration strategy to ensure data integrity.
• Created consistency in the error handling of our inventory REST API after I built an aspect-oriented validation framework in Groovy.