Solomon Foster
Staff Analyst, Ridership Analysis & Modeling at Metropolitan Transportation Authority
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolSolomon Foster is a Senior Data Scientist with 16 years of experience applying statistical modeling and production analytics to complex operational problems, most recently quantifying ridership and crowding impacts at New York City Transit. He has built fraud detection and data infrastructure at Oscar Health using Bayesian methods and pragmatic engineering, and contributed production-grade analytics and visualization software at IBM for regulatory drug-safety workflows. Solomon also contributes to low-level open-source tooling—enhancing string formatting and numeric handling in the NQP compiler for Raku/C++ ecosystems—showing a comfort with systems-level code as well as data science. Now at David Energy and still engaged with Oscar Health, he bridges rigorous modeling, infrastructure, and clear reporting to drive decisions in high-stakes, real-world domains. Outside work he’s a hands-on parent who plays traditional Irish and Newfoundland music and runs tabletop RPG campaigns, reflecting a creative, collaborative approach to problem solving.
16 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Mathematics at Carleton College
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
51reputation
799reached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (10)
string-formatting10
nqp10
string-format10
raku10
biginteger9
compiler-design8
apple-m16
macos6
xt6
cad6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Raku/nqp
Nov 2010 - Jun 2015
NQP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 1 push, 2 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Solomon made significant contributions to the NQP compiler, focusing on enhancing the `sprintf` module for string formatting. They added support for new formatting directives like %e, %E, %g, and %G and incorporated changes from other contributors. The user also implemented features such as a handler system to convert custom types, and improved the handling of numerical precision, particularly for scientific notation and big integer conversions.
rakunqp
colomon/Math-Polynomial
Jul 2010 - Apr 2017
Simple polynomial in one variable class for Perl 6.
Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
variablepolynomialperl
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