Anthony Foster

Paradigm Health · Columbus, Ohio

• Partnering with Engineering Leadership and Product to define the AI DevEx roadmap; establishing standards for internal AI tooling and development practices.
• Serving as Tech Lead for the AI-powered Data Extraction and Automated EHR-to-EDC platform; driving the architectural evolution of a high-compliance, multi-service ecosystem to support complex clinical workflows.
• Architected and implemented the platform's immutable audit logging system to support CFR Part 11 compliance; establishing a verifiable data tracking framework to ensure regulatory trust for critical clinical assets.

Curipod · Oslo, Norway

• Built and maintained Curipod's interactive, AI-native curriculum & student-participation platform, Next.js frontend with a TypeScript/Koa backend over HTTP and WebSockets on GCP, scaling to hundreds of thousands of users daily.
• Lifted signup conversion to 96% (from 90%) by redesigning onboarding and running analytics-driven experiments.
• Established a culture of observability with OpenTelemetry, instrumenting HTTP and WebSocket services to monitor AI-agent and LLM performance; shipped self-serve debug dashboards accelerating feedback loops.
• Automated release processes, removing manual steps and saving ~7 engineering weeks per year.
• Ran in-person and remote user tests with teachers and students; partnered with product/design to turn insights into specs and shipped features more quickly.

SkySpecs · Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Improved platform observability, resulting in a 2–3x decrease in debug time, by creating TypeScript instrumentation libraries and using Terraform to provision supporting infrastructure. Processing 500+ GB of log, metrics, and tracing data monthly.
• Built and managed the data streaming platform leveraging PostgreSQL, Kafka Connect, and RedPanda, deployed on Kubernetes with Helm. Streams billions of events across services and into a data warehouse.
• Designed and built a notifications system on the data streaming platform in collaboration with product management, leveraging an event-driven architecture to alert customers of critical wind turbine damage.
• Audited AWS infrastructure and source code for security vulnerabilities in collaboration with the information security team, contributing to the attainment of ISO 27001 certification.

Ripple Science · United States

• Enabled scaling of HIPAA-compliant clinical research participant management software for enterprise users, helping secure contracts with record-setting ARR by migrating authentication to Amazon Cognito.
• Achieved a 98% improvement in MongoDB query times by refactoring the schema and rewriting aggregation pipelines, resolving critical performance bottlenecks.
• Reduced deployment-related issues by 90% by introducing canary deployments.
• Developed a participant communication framework leveraging SendGrid and Twilio APIs, helping achieve a 96% clinical trial retention rate (far exceeding the ~70% industry standard).

Coupa Supply Chain, powered by LLamasoft · Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Reduced supply chain model development time from 3–6 months to minutes by designing a system for automatic model generation.
• Increased deployment speed and confidence by developing an integration test framework in C# using .NET Core, leading to widespread adoption across the platform.

Coupa Supply Chain, powered by LLamasoft · Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Architected data ingestion APIs using C# (.NET Core) on Kubernetes with Apigee API gateway. Built a data ingestion pipeline on Apache Kafka, enabling onboarding of Fortune 500 clients.
• Created incident management protocols by leading adoption of processes inspired by the Atlassian Incident Management handbook. Mentored engineering leaders on proper root cause analysis.

Coupa Supply Chain, powered by LLamasoft · Ann Arbor, Michigan

• Led full-stack engineering for the Enterprise Simulation Platform, featuring a React frontend and C# (.NET Core) backend on Kubernetes with embedded Tableau Server dashboards.
• Mentored cross-functional interns through delivery of a prototype for embedded analytics software, guiding requirements gathering, agile practices, and deployment automation.