Carl Foster
Senior Software Engineer at Squiz
Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia
Summary
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SeniorCarl Foster is a Senior Software Engineer and technical co-founder based in Brisbane with 11 years of experience building pragmatic, well-modelled web applications across NodeJS, TypeScript and front-end frameworks, and a growing affinity for the Elixir ecosystem. He combines hands-on coding with a systems-thinking approach—diagramming scenarios and modelling solution spaces to reduce ambiguity and accelerate delivery. Carl has shipped production systems in fintech and blockchain contexts, contributed fixes to upstream open-source libraries, and led teams at Squiz while bootstrapping a product as a co-founder. Colleagues know him for finding and fixing subtle JavaScript bugs and for introducing practices like per-PR preview deployments to streamline verification. He brings a blend of startup grit and enterprise discipline, enjoying the craft of architecting resilient, observable web platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (149)
language-server-protocol10
client-library10
browser10
sdk10
react-hooks10
npm-cli10
elixir10
typescript10
adapter10
stellar10
formik10
debug10
react-native10
horizon10
redux-actions10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Carl-Foster/snek
Jul 2016 - Oct 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 4 months
snakeopenglsnake-gameglium
Carl-Foster/exchange-rs
May 2018 - Nov 2018
Simple exchange implementation in Rust
Contributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 32 pushes in 6 months
rustcryptocurrencyexchangecrypto
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