Summary
Amie Foster is a software engineer based in Chicago with four years of experience building web applications using JavaScript, React, Ruby on Rails, HTML/CSS, and SQL. She progressed from junior roles into a software engineer position at Root16 after coaching and mentoring students through Flatiron School’s full-stack curriculum, which honed her ability to explain complex concepts and debug efficiently. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, she blends a math-and-science mindset with creative problem solving to deliver thoughtful user-facing features and reliable server-side code. Her background in retail sales gives her a customer-centric perspective that informs product decisions and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders. Self-taught initially and now portfolio-driven, she maintains an active personal site showcasing projects that reflect her pragmatic, curiosity-led approach to engineering.
4 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate of Completion Software Engineering, Certificate of Completion Software Engineering at Flatiron School
Mathematics, Mathematics at Riverside City College
Cal Poly Pomona