John Forster
Software Engineering Coach at Makers
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Forster is a Software Engineering Coach based in London with eight years of hands-on experience across TypeScript, Rust, Go, and Python, who transitioned from full-stack and backend roles at Vodafone and Bulb into mentoring and technical coaching at Makers. He combines practical product delivery experience with a teacher’s mindset, helping engineers level up while retaining an engineer-first perspective on architecture and maintainability. His background in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh and time in administrative public-sector roles gives him a pragmatic, process-oriented approach to problem solving and communication. Comfortable across the stack, he’s known for turning complex systems into learnable patterns and for fostering durable engineering practices in early-career and mid-level developers.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry, Bachelor of Science - BS, Chemistry at The University of EdinburghGraduate, Graduate at Makers
Github Skills (117)
instagram10
markdown10
javascript10
formatter10
rebuild10
yaml10
json10
fmi10
css10
printer10
explore10
try-catch10
react10
twilio10
twitter9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JohnForster/diplomacy
Nov 2018 - Oct 2021
An implementation of the board game Diplomacy in Typescript
Contributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 10 months
diplomacyjavascriptdiplomacy-gamebrowser-gametypescript
JohnForster/resistance-ts
Mar 2020 - Jan 2022
A web application to assist playing The Resistance board game.
Contributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 128 pushes in 1 year 10 months
reactresistanceweb-applicationassisttypescript
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