Les Foster
Financial Model Developer, Sr at FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION
Frederick, Maryland, United States
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Top SchoolLes Foster is a senior software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance Java and parallel computing solutions for finance, biotech, and government clients. Currently developing large-scale financial models and distributed compute systems at Freddie Mac, he brings deep expertise in Big Data, Spark, and AWS (Solutions Architect and Developer certified). His background in biotechnology and bioinformatics informs a strong visualization skillset—ranging from Swing desktop apps and JOGL/OpenGL shaders to web GUIs and Tableau—enabling clear presentation of complex data. He has a track record of integrating scientific pipelines, REST services, and cloud-native testing for mission-critical workflows. Comfortable across the stack, Les often bridges domain science and software architecture to translate specialist requirements into robust, cross-platform tools. Based in Frederick, MD, he combines academic training from Johns Hopkins and WVU with pragmatic federal- and enterprise-grade delivery.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at West Virginia UniversityJohns Hopkins University
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Github Skills (30)
volume-rendering10
neuroscience10
neuroimaging10
scientific-computing10
fiji9
lambda7
plugin7
gitlab6
aws6
docker6
python6
sam6
debug6
cli5
serverless5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lesfoster/ip-rest-api-foster
Jun 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years
lesfoster/GitForEveryone
Mar 2020 - Jun 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
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