Claire Foster
Senior Product Manager, Data Platform Integrations
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolClaire Foster is a Senior Product Manager focused on data platform integrations with 20 years of experience building pragmatic integration strategies and data products for SaaS companies. She combines technical product leadership with hands-on engineering fluency—contributing code and fixes to high-profile open-source projects like the Julia language, PDAL, and OpenImageIO—which helps her bridge partner requirements and implementation realities. At companies from startups to enterprise, she has owned end-to-end integration rollouts, improved data pipeline performance, and turned integration telemetry into UX and revenue-driving features. Known for rigorous QA and build-system improvements, she brings an engineer’s attention to reliability and performance to product decisions. Based in New York, she excels at translating complex technical tradeoffs into clear stakeholder-facing documentation and repeatable launch processes. A curious problem-solver, she often pairs product strategy with direct code contributions to accelerate delivery and reduce ambiguity.
20 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Babson College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (39)
algorithms10
programming-language10
c-language10
visualization10
shader10
image-processing10
decomposition10
testing10
build-system10
cmake10
glsl10
static-array10
plot10
graphic10
language-design10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaArrays/StaticArrays.jl
Aug 2016 - Dec 2021
Statically sized arrays for Julia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Library Developer
Back-end Developer / Library DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 40 reviews, 201 commits in 5 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Claire contributed significantly to the `staticarrays.jl` library, focusing on improving its core functionality. Their work involved implementing fast paths for commonly used functions like `normalize()`, addressing bugs related to type inference, and extending the library's capabilities with features like SVD, LU decomposition, and Kronecker products. They also made minor improvements like fixing typos and cleaning up the code. The user's contributions were aimed at enhancing the performance and completeness of the static array library for use in Julia.
slicearraysjulia
JuliaLang/julia
Jun 2013 - Oct 2022
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Language Contributor
Back-end Developer & Language ContributorContributions:69 reviews, 181 commits, 153 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Claire contributed to the Julia programming language repository by addressing several issues. They fixed a deprecation warning related to the `Uint` type, adding a workaround and a reminder to remove the workaround in the future. Additionally, they corrected broadcasting behavior for empty sparse matrices, including adding tests for the new functionality and improving code clarity. The user's work also included addressing an issue with the compiler and addressing several bugs and performance issues within the internal workings of the Julia runtime.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
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