Kris Foster
Senior Product Manager, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Developer Platform
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolKris Foster is a senior product manager and developer with over two decades of experience blending research, consulting, and enterprise product leadership to improve developer experience for complex systems. At Oracle Labs he leads developer tooling and AI-augmented workflows—owning roadmaps for GraalVM, Micronaut, and widely adopted VS Code/IntelliJ extensions—while partnering with AI researchers on agent frameworks, LLMs, RAG, evaluation and guardrails. He pairs deep technical chops (early career R&D scientist at the UK Met Office and extensive consulting across clients like IKEA, BBC and Vodafone) with practical delivery: shipping open-source extensions, customer POCs, and internal tooling that streamline build and deploy workflows. A frequent speaker at JavaOne, DEVOXX and Oracle events, he translates research into usable developer products and still writes production code himself. Not obvious from job titles: his background in satellite instrumentation and physics gives him an analytical, measurement-driven approach to product decisions and tool evaluation.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
BSc. (Hons) Physics, BSc. (Hons) Physics at University of NottinghamMSc. Comupter Science, MSc. Comupter Science at University of Staffordshire
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
graalvm10
java10
reward10
rocket9
polyglot9
groovy9
kotlin9
aot9
qbcore-framework9
vscode9
gradle-plugin9
maven9
serverless8
compiler8
obsolete8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
krisfoster/ni-k8s-demo
Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
ni-k8s-demo
Contributions:3 reviews, 44 commits, 3 PRs in 4 months
k8skubernetesk8s-demo
krisfoster/graal-containers
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:42 commits, 29 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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