# Mark Foster > Principal Engineer/Chief Architect at AnyRoad Location: Berkeley, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/markfoster Specialties: Distributed Computing, System and Software Architecture, REST, API Design, Technical Leadership and Team Building, DevOps ## Work Experience ### Principal Engineer/Platform Architect @ AnyRoad Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area ### Chief Technical Officer/Chief Strategy Officer @ Rapticore, Inc Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Principal Engineer/Platform Architect @ Optimizely Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area ### API Platform Architect @ Oracle Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Microservices Platform Architect, Oracle Cloud @ Oracle Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area Designing and Delivering API-First Microservice Platform built on Kubernetes ### Architect, Platform API Services @ Autodesk Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Senior Director of Platform Development @ Apiary Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 Delivering great products that make developers happy designing and consuming APIs. ### Principal Systems Architect @ Medidata Solutions Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 Pioneering enterprise messaging technologies, design methodologies and patterns for highly evolvable, cloud-based SOA solutions employing Hypermedia APIs and agents. ### Software Architect @ Medidata Solutions Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Ross, CA Designing and coding cloud-based, Ruby on Rails distributed computing solutions using Hypermedia APIs for next generation SaaS and PaaS Clinical Trial Management. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Medidata Solutions Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Ross, CA Ruby on Rails SaaS application and web service platform development for clinical trial design and protocol generation. ### Application Developer/Program Manager @ Freelance Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Pleasanton, CA Ruby on Rails and Flex Program Manager and Lead Developer creating Facebook embedded and relationship management Rails applications, interactive, adaptive learning and content management Flex applications and cross-platform Rails, Flex, and .NET investment applications. ### Executive Consulting @ Consulting Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Personal and professional projects including consulting existing and start-up non-profits working in developing nations on governance, fundraising, corporate operations and strategy and for-profits in the VOIP and electric car industries on strategy and systems development. ### Executive Director @ Every Nation Ministries Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 Architected/spearheaded successful roll-out of complete international organizational and governmental restructuring/re-branding initiative for related non-profits and churches including 5 global operational centers. ### Director of Operations @ Every Nation Ministries Jan 1994 – Jan 2005 Developed, implemented and oversaw all systems, processes, departments, and infrastructure which enabled the growth of a 25 missionary staff working out of a handful of churches into a global organization with over 1200 staff and 380 churches in 50 countries in just under 11 years. ### Research Scientist @ PHYSICAL OPTICS CORPORATION Jan 1990 – Jan 1994 Successfully marketed diverse projects and technologies to industry and government entities resulting in personally winning 5 research grants for novel research, including surface plasmon resonance devices and sensors, non-imaging optics concentrators, bio/chemi-luminescence sensors and fusion reactor fiber optic components and spectroscopy sensors managing 9 contracts totaling over $1.5 million developing innovative sensors and fiber optic systems. ### Development Technician @ University of California Jan 1989 – Jan 1990 Designed and fabricated opto-electronic tracking system, internal components and data-acquisition software for a highly sensitive computer-controlled torque magnetometer ## Education ### Masters of Science in Physics UC San Diego ### BS in Physics Washington State University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mwfoster --- Source: https://flows.cv/markfoster JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/markfoster/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12