Vince Foley is a Senior Software Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 12 years of experience building backend systems and APIs. He brings deep expertise in Elixir and GraphQL, having contributed substantive features and architecture improvements to the widely used Absinthe GraphQL toolkit and its Plug integration, including parser, subscription, and telemetry work. Vince pairs rigorous engineering—refactoring, bug fixes, and test coverage—with pragmatic product focus, enabling reliable API behavior at scale. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri–Columbia, and now applies that strong academic foundation to shipping production-quality backend services at Felt. A less obvious strength is his attention to developer ergonomics and observability, reflected in telemetry integrations and tooling improvements across his open-source work.
Plug support for Absinthe, the GraphQL toolkit for Elixir
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:9 releases, 79 commits, 48 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vince primarily contributed to the implementation and enhancement of Absinthe's Plug integration, a GraphQL toolkit for Elixir. Their work focused on adding features such as a GraphQL parser for Plug, handling content types, and enabling subscriptions over HTTP. The user refactored and optimized the code, including dependency updates and the addition of testing and test coverage.
Contributions:15 releases, 51 reviews, 308 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Vince focused on enhancing the Absinthe GraphQL toolkit for Elixir, introducing key features and improvements. The user implemented features, such as supporting the import of fields for interfaces, and refactored code related to complex default values, while also demonstrating the use of the telemetry tools and features. Further, the user addressed several bugs, improved code formatting, and optimized the underlying architecture.
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