Robert Foster
Owner at Australian Umbraco Users Group
Gold Coast City, Queensland, Australia
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Top SchoolRobert Foster is an experienced software developer and IT consultant with over two decades of hands-on experience delivering websites, mobile apps and bespoke Windows applications, and more than a decade focused on Umbraco since 2009. As an Umbraco MVP and certified Microsoft technologist, he combines deep platform expertise with a practical eye for performance, UX and maintainability, having contributed back-end fixes and stability improvements to the core Umbraco CMS. He has founded and led multiple businesses, including Your Space and Your teams, and co-founded KØBEN Digital, helping organisations from NGOs to enterprise clients translate complex requirements into polished digital experiences. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and business analysis, he regularly runs Australian Umbraco meetups and contributes to StackExchange, reflecting a commitment to community and knowledge-sharing. Based in Tweed Heads, he also brings product-minded consulting—training, support and add-on development—for teams adopting Umbraco and Azure/Office 365 ecosystems. Notably, his open-source work has improved caching and content retrieval stability in one of the most widely used .NET CMS projects.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Victoria UniversityRMITBachelor’s Degree, Information Systems, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Systems at Deakin University
English
Stackoverflow
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90answers
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Github Skills (20)
umbraco10
cms10
asp-net-core10
dotnet-core10
csharp10
dotnet9
net9
model-view-controller9
asp-net9
netcore9
database8
sql-database8
databases8
database-api8
logging6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
umbraco/Umbraco-CMS
Feb 2019 - Dec 2022
Umbraco is a free and open source .NET content management system helping you deliver delightful digital experiences.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 14 PRs, 57 comments in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Umbraco CMS back-end, focusing on code refactoring, bug fixes, and feature enhancements. They renamed methods, added grid editor support, and corrected content name auto-numbering logic. Furthermore, the user worked on critical infrastructure components by mitigating potential data loading issues for a cache, improving the performance and stability of content retrieval operations.
cmscontent-management-systemheadless-cmsaspumbraco
YourITGroup/EmailExtensions
Aug 2019 - Feb 2022
Contributions:1 review, 12 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 7 months
email
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