Website of the software developer Louis Foster

You can reach me at my LinkedIn.

Or, you can send an email to: contact@louisfoster.com

Skribble, Germany: 2020-2025
Engineering Manager
Swiss-based, seed stage, digital signature start up. Started here as a senior dev and moved into a lead and managment role. Built a product engineering team and introduced new methods to push for fast and stable delivery of new features. During this time we remodelled the platform into a new paradigm, launched onto a new data center, and improved developer experience including work-life balance.

super.AI, Germany: 2018-2020
Senior Engineer
First Berlin employee for this seed stage, AI enablement start up. Created the customer facing web-based data labeling and management dashboard. I was involved in hiring and onboarding new employees, making critical architecture decisions and worked directly with contractors and customers.

Airteam, Australia: 2014-2018
Senior Engineer
With Airteam, I had the opportunity to apply my training in both product design and computer science to develop engaging products for start ups and large enterprise clients.

I received education with certification in Industial Design and Software Engineering from these institutions:

  • University of New South Wales
  • Western Sydney University
  • TAFE New South Wales

I enjoy volunteering, hosting workshops, and speaking at conferences related to open source and creativity. I have also participated in arts grants programs with other artists creating experimental audio technology.

FOSDEM 2022: Rapid Prototyping Physical Interfaces with Web Serial and Cheap MCUs

Web Audio Conference 2021: Live Streaming Platform As An Instrument, Experience And Pastime

Vasulka Kitchen 2021: Taming of the Stream: Performance with(in) protocol

NEXT Festival 2020: Live Streaming Platform As An Instrument, Experience And Pastime

NIME 2020: Live Streaming Platform As An Instrument, Experience And Pastime

Linux Australia Conference 2016: Volunteer