Ryan Foster
Staff Data Engineer
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Foster is a Staff Data Engineer in Portland with 15+ years delivering data platforms, ML pipelines, and product-driven engineering across startups and enterprises. He blends deep domain expertise in platform engineering, deep learning, computer vision, derivatives, and InfoSec to turn complex data problems into revenue-driving products and operational advantage. At Optum and Nike he led large-scale microservices and analytics migrations while also owning security remediation and real-time streaming productionization. Ryan has repeatedly built and scaled teams and businesses—from founding adtech and agency ventures to directing data and analytics at consumer and fintech firms—demonstrating both hands-on engineering and strategic product leadership. He pairs quantitative market experience as a former portfolio manager with practical ML productionization, an uncommon combination that helps him bridge risk-aware modeling and operational systems. Colleagues know him for shipping measurable business outcomes quickly while tightening governance, performance, and security across data estates.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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31answers
6questions
Github Skills (151)
azure-functions10
serverless10
backend10
lambda10
jupyter10
aws-lambda10
serverless-framework10
aws10
ip-database9
graphql-api9
javascript9
linux9
geolocation9
rest9
dynamodb9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
f0ster/perspective
Mar 2021 - Oct 2025
Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly
Contributions:7 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 7 months
javascriptstreamingwebassemblywasmvisualization
f0ster/parse
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 releases, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
api-clientapiclient-librarynodejsparser
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