James Foster
Vice President Of Engineering at GemTalk Systems
College Place, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolJames Foster is a seasoned engineering executive with over two decades of cross-functional experience leading QA, finance, operations, and product engineering at GemTalk Systems and predecessor organizations. Currently Vice President of Engineering, he blends deep hands-on technical skills in software, testing automation, and Python with strategic business responsibilities such as contracts, finance, and global customer engagement. He has a track record of modernizing engineering practices—building integrated bug-tracking and repo workflows, introducing automated testing, and streamlining releases to boost productivity. An adjunct computer science professor, he also brings an academic lens to mentoring and curriculum-driven teaching. Comfortable negotiating complex international contracts and presenting at conferences, he pairs practical delivery focus with an ability to translate technical value to customers. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he also holds a JD and has early-career legal and policy experience that informs his pragmatic approach to risk, compliance, and contracts.
11 years of coding experience
34 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at North Dakota State UniversityBA Math major History & Econ minors, BA Math major History & Econ minors at Walla Walla UniversityMBA, MBA at Southern Adventist UniversityJD Law, JD Law at University of California, Los Angeles - School of Law
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Github Skills (200)
mobile-development10
web-application10
windows10
language-server-protocol10
spi10
theia10
arduino-library10
pharo10
javascript10
app-framework10
object-oriented-programming10
editor10
skia10
dart10
smalltalk10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
jgfoster/GraphicsBook
Dec 2019 - Jan 2022
Introduction to Computer Graphics
Contributions:2 reviews, 6 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 years 1 month
computer-graphics
jgfoster/pharo
Jul 2019 - Nov 2024
The Sources for Pharo
Contributions:256 pushes, 111 branches, 7 tags in 5 years 5 months
pharosmalltalksources
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