Charles Foster
Chairman at XML London
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
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SeniorCharles Foster is a seasoned data and XML/Linked Data specialist with 14 years of hands-on experience architecting scalable semantic solutions and leading consulting engagements. As Chairman of XML London and a W3C Invited Expert, he blends deep expertise in MarkLogic, RDF/SPARQL and XSLT with pragmatic Scala engineering to turn complex relational models into linked-data platforms. He has built production-grade ETL and search systems for financial and publishing clients, and created tooling that visualises XSLT data lineage to dramatically reduce development and QA time. Comfortable in both consultancy and embedded delivery roles, he also has recent experience building microservices and DevOps pipelines for government identity systems. Based in Warwick, he’s known for combining academic-standard standards work with practical, fast-moving implementations that surface semantic value where simple text search falls short.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Thai
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (78)
chat10
xquery10
signal10
xml10
basex9
linux9
client-library9
messenger9
pgp9
end-to-end-encryption9
windows9
service-client9
extension-functions9
keybase9
xml-database9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cfoster/xmllondon-rdf
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:87 commits, 5 PRs, 77 pushes in 2 years 5 months
linked-open-dataxmllinked-datadata-set
cfoster/saxon-jing
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
Extension Functions allowing Saxon to validate documents against RelaxNG Schemas
Contributions:21 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 2 months
extension-functionsrelaxngschemassaxonvalidate
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