Lou Foster
Software Engineer at University of Virginia Library
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLou Foster is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience building scalable systems across Ruby, Go, Java, C++ and Python, currently developing digital content management and dissemination tools at the University of Virginia Library. He co-founded Studio332 to ship Android casual games and has a track record of open-sourcing titles and tooling that reflect a developer-first mindset. Lou has led engineering efforts at startups and established organizations, delivering RESTful services, OCR pipelines, and high-throughput game servers while mentoring teams in pragmatic, object-oriented design. His background spans embedded interpreters, DSLs for AI behavior, and production web services—examples of solving practical problems with elegant technical compromises. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he combines academic and industry experience to bridge research workflows and production software. Colleagues describe him as a reliable deadline-driven engineer who elevates team productivity through tooling and automation.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Neshaminy High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Penn State University
Github Skills (17)
laravel9
php9
organize9
desktop-application7
solr6
linked-data6
catalog6
react5
rdf5
desktop5
java5
linux5
windows5
testing5
visualization4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
performant-software/juxta-desktop
Mar 2012 - Mar 2013
Juxta Desktop Application
Contributions:11 commits in 1 year
desktop-applicationwindowselectronlinuxdesktop
collex/rdf-indexer
Mar 2011 - Jun 2015
Contributions:131 commits, 5 pushes in 4 years 3 months
linked-datasolrindexindexestesting
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