Gary Foster
Engineering Manager at New Context
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorGary Foster is an engineering manager and hands-on technologist with 15+ years building distributed systems, DevOps platforms, and high-throughput data pipelines across startups and large enterprises in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently leads DevOps consultants at New Context, designing infrastructure-as-code solutions with Terraform, Ansible, Chef and related tools, and has repeatedly moved between individual contributor and leadership roles to stay technically current. His career includes architecting real-time event processing at scale (3+ billion monthly events), building messaging buses capable of millions of messages per second, and operationalizing CI/CD and modern SDLC practices for international teams. A servant leader who prioritizes developing other leaders, he combines tactical "roll-up-your-sleeves" engineering with strategic team building and mentorship informed by influences like Dee Hock and Gene Kim. Unusually, his background includes nuclear submarine service, reflecting a disciplined systems mindset he brings to reliability and operations challenges.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (29)
kitchen9
test-kitchen7
capistrano7
activemodel7
driver6
configurations6
bus6
testing5
hubot4
rubygems4
terraform4
ruby4
plotly-dash3
sidekiq3
gdrive2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
taskrabbit/hubot
Jun 2016 - Aug 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 77 pushes, 6 comments in 1 year 2 months
hubot
gfoster/helpers
Jan 2011 - Jun 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 3 years 4 months
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