Elliott Foster

Experience

• Four Kitchens

  Austin, TX
  Developer December 2010 - present

  Accomplishments

  • Built internal development and automated deployment infrastructure.
  • "Core committer" for The Economist, responsible for reviewing code before it's merged to trunk.
  • Redeployed the search system for The Economist using Acquia's hosted Apache Solr.
  • Migrated the legacy newsletter system for The Economist to ExactTarget using the SOAP API.

  Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain custom Drupal code for clients.
  • Diagnose and fix performance problems on large scale Drupal sites.
  • Train clients in using and building high performance Drupal sites.

• New Media Broadcasting Company/ Direct2Care

  Glendale, CA
  Head of Web Development July 2005 - December 2010

  Accomplishments

  • Deployed Varnish reverse proxy and static file cache for MashCast Drupal system.
  • Deployed Apache Solr faceted search for MashCast Drupal system.
  • Deployed memcached and MySQL master-slave servers for scalability of the MashCast Drupal system.
  • Wrote data synchronization code to keep information from a multi-site network and a desktop client server in sync
  • Wrote code to manage, re-format, and display uploaded files such as images, videos, and audio
  • Created a profile based search module
  • Wrote a horoscopes module that populates its current astrological sign information via RSS feeds
  • Worked with “themers” (HTML/CSS experts) to ensure the output from Drupal modules was easy to handle at the theme layer

  Responsibilities

  • Write Drupal modules using PHP with MySQL
  • Manage the release process from automated daily builds to release candidate to production release
  • Create monitoring suites using Nagios
  • Implement automated workflows for release process using C++ and Java programs and shell scripts