Graeme Foster
Senior Software Engineer at Equal Experts
Reading, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolGraeme Foster is a Senior Software Engineer and hands-on architect with three decades of commercial experience who currently splits his time between leading teams at DEFRA and running his consultancy, Code For Breakfast. He specialises in web development, cloud-native systems (GCP, AWS, Azure) and TypeScript, favouring functional patterns and immutability to keep code simple and testable while knowing precisely which tests add value. Graeme has repeatedly taken products from inception to production across sectors—from payments at Tesco and platform work at Just Eat to sustainability and generative-AI features at Contingent—bringing pragmatic architecture, CI/CD and observability to bear. He mentors teams, introduces modern tools and practices (Effect-TS, GitOps, OpenTelemetry) and enjoys proving ideas via personal projects that often feed back into his professional work. An early self-taught programmer who still brews beer and built a custom home heating controller, he combines long-term system-level thinking with curiosity-driven experimentation.
15 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at University of Southampton
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
trello-api10
visibility9
testing9
wpf9
observablecollection6
textblock6
scrum6
project-management6
visual-studio6
optimization6
operator6
defaults6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
norberteder/trello
Mar 2012 - Jun 2014
Use the Trello API from Node
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Graeme primarily contributed to the development of the Trello API client library. Their work focused on adding new functionalities like `getListsOnBoard`, `addListToBoard`, `getCardsOnBoard`, `deleteCard`, `addCard`, `addCommentToCard`, and `addMemberToCard`. Furthermore, the user refactored the code by introducing the `makeRequest` function and also added unit tests. This indicates a focus on expanding the library's capabilities and ensuring its quality.
apijavascriptnodejstrello-apitrello
GraemeF/home-automation
Apr 2022 - Feb 2023
Control your Hive heating with Hue sensors
Contributions:146 commits, 181 PRs, 379 pushes in 10 months
hue-sensorssensorsifttthuehome-automation
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