Tim Foster
Senior Data Specialist
Greater Glasgow Area United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Foster is a Senior Data Specialist based in Greater Glasgow with 13 years of experience turning ecological field data into robust, regulatory-grade insights for the Scottish Environment Protection Agency. He combines hands-on ecology expertise—having collected and analysed freshwater macroinvertebrates and macrophytes—with strong data engineering skills in R, SQL, GIS and TIBCO Spotfire to drive data quality, reporting and visualization. Tim leads integration of new reporting methods and develops R packages to operationalize analytics, ensuring results are auditable and usable for regulators. He contributes to open source documentation, improving deployment guides and contributor workflows for the offline-first Hoodie JavaScript backend, reflecting a pragmatic focus on clear technical communication. Known for rigorous data tidying and query work, he routinely bridges field ecology and reproducible data science to make complex environmental data accessible and actionable.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Environmental Biology, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Environmental Biology at University of Liverpool
Github Skills (5)
documentation10
javascript4
offline-web-app4
backend4
offline-app4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
hoodiehq/hoodie
Feb 2017 - Aug 2018
:dog: The Offline First JavaScript Backend
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:29 commits, 19 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the documentation of the Hoodie project. Their commits focused on updating deployment guides, correcting typos, fixing formatting issues, and improving the overall presentation of the documentation. They also updated contributing guidelines and corrected links throughout the documentation. These changes enhance the clarity and usability of the project's documentation for both users and contributors.
jsjavascriptbackendnodejshoodie
fozy81/rict
Sep 2022 - Oct 2023
🐛 R package for River Invertebrate Classification Tool (rict)
Contributions:4 PRs, 66 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year
r-packageclassification-toolriverrstatsclassification
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