Jed Foster
Engineering Manager at Self-Employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarJed Foster is an experienced engineering manager and front-end architect with 15 years building consumer-facing apps, video players, and web experiences for companies like Palmetto, Rooster Park, and Getty Images. Currently leading engineering at Palmetto after progressing from senior and staff engineering roles, he blends hands-on front-end development with team leadership and delivery ownership. As a long-time self-employed consultant he’s comfortable designing architecture and stepping into product-facing implementation work. Jed contributes to open-source front-end tooling—improving usability and demos for the Readmore.js plugin—showing attention to UX details often overlooked in utility libraries. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic mix of engineering craft, mentorship, and product sensibility to complex web projects.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (8)
css10
javascript10
jquery10
ui-design9
html9
responsive-design8
php6
mysql6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jedfoster/Readmore.js
Dec 2012 - Mar 2019
A lightweight jQuery plugin for collapsing and expanding long blocks of text with "Read more" and "Close" links.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 186 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jed primarily focused on enhancing the demo functionality and user interface of the readmore.js plugin. They made several revisions to the demo.html file, including adding new sections, cleaning up whitespace, and tweaking the copy to improve clarity. The user also addressed styling concerns by setting a monospace font-stack, implementing a max-width, and increasing side padding on the demo content. Additionally, the user updated the demo with new documentation and implemented the startOpen option.
jquery-plugin
jedfoster/Roughdraft
Feb 2013 - May 2015
Gist-powered writing.
Contributions:420 commits, 7 pushes, 5 comments in 2 years 3 months
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