Summary
Richard Foster is an experienced software entrepreneur and owner of EdgeWay Software with over 8 years of hands-on development building cross-platform apps for Windows Phone, NOOK, iOS, Android and TV platforms. He specializes in Unity, C#, JavaScript and SvelteKit, and pairs front-end game/interactive app experience with back-end skills in Node/Socket.IO, Java/C++, SQL, MongoDB and cloud services (Azure, AWS). Richard started his company in 2010 and has continuously shipped consumer apps (examples at edgewaysoft.com, openquiz.io and minipiano.app), demonstrating a knack for turning niche ideas into polished products. His background includes unconventional problem-solving roles—from professional online poker where mathematical intuition mattered, to hands-on operations and international tour work—bringing practical resilience and a user-focused mindset to software design.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Software design, BASIC and C++ programing, Software design, BASIC and C++ programing at Euro Itec, Ashford Kent, United Kingdom