Sam Foster
Software Engineer
Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorSamuel F is a software engineer with 17 years of hands-on experience building and optimizing web platforms, currently focused on performance at Apple after recent roles at Art of Problem Solving and Vercel. He began coding as a child (Lua, Liberty BASIC, Java) and shifted from tutoring to freelance frontend work at 16, cultivating a user-first approach to engineering. At Cal Poly Pomona he co-founded and grew the Software Engineering Association from 5 to 65 members as Co-President, and a Google internship gave him production-scale experience shipping features to millions. His background spans frontend performance, web architecture, and Unix sysadmin work—he's also the creator of Durdraw, a niche text-art editor—reflecting a blend of pragmatic product focus and deep systems curiosity.
17 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (55)
tui10
ncurses10
text-editor10
python10
animation10
textmode10
linux10
drawing10
editor10
ascii10
unicode10
ansi10
ascii-art10
programming-language9
animated9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cmang/durdraw
May 2009 - Jan 2023
Versatile ASCII and ANSI Art text editor for drawing in the Linux/Unix/macOS terminal, with animation, 256 and 16 colors, Unicode and CP437, and customizable themes
Contributions:38 releases, 18 reviews, 52 commits in 13 years 10 months
animationansiansi-artasciiascii-art
cmang/emojam
May 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:34 commits, 30 pushes in 3 months
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