Michael Foster

Since 1994. Married, father of two. Nashville, Tennessee.

I finished a BSCS in two years, carrying 36 credit hours a semester. A normal load is fifteen.

What I do now

I work on the system that decides what medical providers get paid for workers' compensation and auto-liability claims. A wrong number there is either a client's lost savings or a provider dispute with a regulator attached, so the work rewards being careful in a way most software does not.

My most recent feature spanned six services and six weeks, sequenced so that each one could ship independently without breaking the others. It stays switched off until two separate controls agree it should be on.

I review more code than I write.

The shape of the last four years

I have been committing since 2022: six commits that year, then nine, then sixty-four, then a hundred and thirty. Four hundred and sixty-five in the first seven months of 2026.

The interesting part is not the volume. It is what changed at the last boundary. Through 2025 the recurring question in my own projects was can I build this. Through 2026 it has been can I prove this is correct: deterministic generators, verification gates over work I delegated to something else, property-based test suites that assert the thing I actually care about rather than the thing that is easy to check.

I have multiple projects in various stages of development. The ones still moving are on the work page.