Kevin Foster
Senior Director Of Engineering at MakerSights
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Foster is a senior engineering leader in Vancouver with 25 years in software and over a decade leading teams, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering at MakerSights. He has moved up through hands-on roles from senior engineer to head of engineering, blending product-focused leadership with deep technical roots in game and graphics engineering from companies like Ubisoft and EA. His career spans founding a game studio, helping scale a benefits startup through acquisition, and building tools and pipelines that touch art, animation and runtime systems. With an MSc in Computer Graphics and a background teaching university-level graphics and animation, he brings a rare combination of technical depth, mentorship, and product empathy to developer-facing infrastructure and consumer-facing products. Notably, he continues to bridge creative and engineering disciplines—shipping tooling and systems that make complex content pipelines manageable for cross-functional teams.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Computer Graphics, Master of Science Computer Graphics at University of Calgary
brazilian portuguese (beginner)
Github Skills (32)
caching10
invalidation10
admin10
django10
laravel10
revert10
slick10
xadmin10
django-admin10
python9
rest9
api9
orm9
management9
rest-api8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
KevinGrahamFoster/django-cities-light
Jun 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:8 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 6 months
update-datastatusregiongeonamesupdate
KevinGrahamFoster/django-cacheops
Feb 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years
granularinvalidationdatabasecacheevent-driven
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