Mike Foster
Senior Software Engineer at Ontra
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Foster is a Senior Software Engineer based in California with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and modernizing legacy systems. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and front-end JavaScript frameworks (React, Ember) and brings production experience with Elixir, PostgreSQL, AWS EC2, and responsive UI work. Mike pairs hands-on engineering with strengths in project management, technical writing, and stakeholder communication, having led releases, requirements gathering, and documentation across startups and media teams. His background in desktop support, marketing, and even law studies gives him a pragmatic, multidisciplinary approach to problem solving and user-centered product decisions. Currently at Ontra, he focuses on maintainable code and scalable features while drawing on past roles that ranged from ecommerce rebuilds to managing distributed ambassador teams.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
JD, Law, JD, Law at Whittier Law SchoolJavascript, PHP, Ruby, Javascript, PHP, Ruby at Code AcademyBA, Philosophy, Chinese Studies, BA, Philosophy, Chinese Studies at University of California, IrvineBAVCCertificate, Web Development, jQuery, Certificate, Web Development, jQuery at AcademyX
English, Chinese, Spanish, Latin
Stackoverflow
147reputation
30kreached
17answers
11questions
Github Skills (31)
paperclip6
ruby-on-rails6
ruby6
unit-testing6
matlab6
controller6
ruby-application5
twitter5
twitter-bootstrap4
jekyll4
bootstrap4
datepicker4
react4
rails3
gatsby3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
octopushugs/nvperkslist
Jul 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 2 years
octopushugs/gitconfig
Sep 2017 - Oct 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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