Summary
Dylan Foster is a web engineer based in San Francisco with 12 years of experience building maintainable, user-facing applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript (Backbone.js, jQuery), WebSockets, and SQL. He prioritizes readable, SOLID-driven code and has a track record of shipping front-end improvements and resilient web services at startups like Guidebook and Chute. Comfortable across the stack, Dylan pairs a tutor's patience—honed teaching calculus and linear algebra—with a developer’s discipline for clean architecture and long-term maintainability. He’s passionate about crafting “beautiful code” that’s easy for teams to debug and extend, and enjoys driving projects from concept to production.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
App Academy