Meet the Instructor

Andrew Foster

Senior Product Manager, Amazon

Andrew Foster is a senior product manager at Amazon and has over 10 years of experience in the tech industry. Andrew began his career in tech designing and launching dozens of products in the video game, video streaming and telecommunication industries. He first began programming over 18 years ago, but developed a passion for Python in 2014 after using the language for rapid prototyping. Andrew continues to expand his knowledge of Python by teaching programming classes, participating in a number of open source Python communities and working on side projects in computational finance and machine learning.

Before working in the tech industry, Andrew was a commercial fisherman, financial auditor, government analyst, outdoor guide and soldier in the United States Army. He has an MBA in technology management from the University of Washington, a bachelor's in accounting and corporate finance from northern Michigan University and programming certificates from several university programs.

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