Kit Foster
Senior Software Engineer at Vercel
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolKit Foster is a senior full-stack engineer with nine years' experience building production-grade web applications, currently shaping developer experience and frontend infrastructure at Vercel. He specialises in React, TypeScript and Node.js, with strong interests in UX, infrastructure-as-code and cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), and a track record of scaling high-traffic services and APIs. Kit has led cross-functional teams and initiatives—most notably stewarding the Next.js-powered frontend for Australia’s top online retailer and coordinating integrations between retail and loyalty platforms. He brings practical DevOps instincts (PagerDuty, CI/CD, shared IAC) alongside hands-on feature development and mentoring through pair/mob programming. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise contexts, he combines product-focused UX sensibility with disciplined, well-tested engineering. Based in Amsterdam, he favours maintainable code and pragmatic architecture that balances developer productivity with user experience.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Github Skills (26)
javascript10
vercel10
storybook10
static-site-generator10
typescript10
nextjs10
browser10
server-rendering10
react-framework10
ssg10
compiler10
react10
hybrid10
terraform9
terraform-provider9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kitfoster/sf-website
May 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:95 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
kitfoster/css-car
Jul 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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