James Foster
Engineering Manager at Atomic Theory
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Foster is an engineering manager with 11 years of game development experience who blends hands-on coding with team leadership to ship high-profile mobile titles. He progressed from software support to senior engineering and technical director roles across Glu and Electronic Arts, contributing to long-running franchises like Tap Sports Baseball and Golf Clash. Comfortable in both Unity/C# professionally and Unreal/C++ personally, he routinely steps into unfamiliar technical areas—from UI and gameplay to graphics, animation, and AI—to unblock teams and drive delivery. His management style mixes collaboration, coaching, and delegation, and he prefers working alongside engineers during crunch moments to ensure projects cross the finish line. Now leading engineering at Atomic Theory from the UK, he brings a pragmatic, adaptable approach and a track record of moving between hands-on engineering and strategic leadership.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Associates Degree Accounting, Associates Degree Accounting at Mission CollegeBachelors Degree Computer Science, Bachelors Degree Computer Science at Sonoma State UniversityGeneral Education Computer Science, General Education Computer Science at Cabrillo College
Spanish, English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
englandjf/CS470
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
englandjf/musicApp
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:23 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
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