Griffin Foster
Lead Product Manager at Zendar
Berkeley, California, United States
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Top SchoolGriffin Foster is a Lead Product Manager with 16 years of experience applying physics, CS, statistics, and electrical engineering to real-world sensing systems. He currently leads product for distributed, AI-driven automotive radar and ADAS at Zendar, translating system-level analysis and cross-functional engineering work into customer-facing KPIs and road-facing products. Griffin’s background spans FPGA instrumentation, sparse/MIMO radar design, SAR imaging, and interferometric searches for rare astrophysical signals—work that produced a textbook and multiple peer-reviewed papers. Trained as an Oxford astrophysicist and seasoned in both academic and industry settings from SKA to Breakthrough Listen, he brings a rare blend of hands-on signal-processing expertise and product strategy. Colleagues rely on him to bridge cutting-edge research and pragmatic engineering tradeoffs to push radar perception beyond conventional limits.
16 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics and Astrophysics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Physics and Astrophysics at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Astrophysics at University of Oxford
Github Skills (43)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
griffinfoster/SWHT
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Python implementation of the Spherical Harmonic Wave Transform for Radio Interferometry
Contributions:69 commits, 1 PR, 32 pushes in 3 years 1 month
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griffinfoster/griffinfoster.github.io
Apr 2016 - Feb 2022
Contributions:71 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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