Derek Foster
Lead Software Developer at Hays
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Foster is a Lead Software Developer based in Barcelona with 11 years of hands-on full-stack experience delivering web applications across PHP (Laravel and in-house frameworks), Java (Spring Boot), and modern JavaScript frameworks like Vue and React. He has progressed from freelance and early full-stack roles to leading teams and projects focused on CRM, commercial integrations, and logistics solutions for companies in travel and media. Comfortable both coding and managing, Derek blends technical ownership—architecture, integrations, and legacy migrations—with project leadership using tools like Git, Jira, Tempo and Asana. His background includes directing IT teams to stabilize customer-data platforms and designing integration architectures between in-house systems and third-party services. Colleagues rely on him to bridge legacy stacks (PHP/jQuery, Angular) with contemporary SPA and microservice approaches, making him effective in transitional modernization projects. Fluent in delivering pragmatic, business-aligned software, he brings a pattern-oriented mindset from multiple industry domains rather than a single-vertical specialty.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachiller con orientación en Economía, Bachiller con orientación en Economía at Colegios ALFA
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
trust8
trading-bot8
bitcoin7
cryptocurrency7
crypto6
broker6
cryptocurrencies6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mcDucksProject/mcDucksTracker_app
Aug 2021 - Apr 2022
What if Mc Duck had a crypto tracker?
Contributions:38 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 8 months
crypto-trackertrackerduckwhat-ifcrypto
mcDucksProject/mcDucksBroker
Jun 2021 - May 2022
What if mcDuck had a crypto broker?
Contributions:5 releases, 1 review, 25 commits in 11 months
brokerfreqtradetrading-botfreqtrade-strategieswhat-if
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