Mark Foster
Principal Engineer Platform Architect
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Foster is a Principal Engineer and Platform Architect based in Berkeley with 14 years building API-first, cloud-native and distributed systems across startups and enterprise teams. He has led platform architecture and technical strategy at AnyRoad, Optimizely, Oracle and Autodesk, specializing in microservices, REST/API design and DevOps to deliver scalable developer-facing platforms. Mark combines hands-on engineering with executive experience as a former CTO/CSO and senior director, able to translate product needs into resilient platform roadmaps and teams. His background in physics and early career in research and global operations gives him a systems-oriented, experimental approach to solving engineering and organizational complexity. He’s particularly skilled at designing evolvable hypermedia APIs and Kubernetes-based service platforms that accelerate developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him to bridge strategy, architecture and delivery while mentoring teams to operate large-scale distributed systems.
14 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoBS Physics, BS Physics at Washington State University
Github Skills (9)
simplify8
product-quality7
api5
hypermedia5
specification4
nodejs2
ruby2
api-blueprint2
blueprint2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mdsol-share/crichton
Feb 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:333 commits in 1 year 5 months
apihypermediahypermedia-apisimplify
aimeedonahue/api-blueprint
Nov 2013 - Jan 2014
Contributions:8 commits in 2 months
apinodejsapi-blueprintblueprint
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