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Gregory Foster

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Co-founder & CTO at Harvest Commerce · HR software

Works at
Harvest Commerce
Location
Toronto, ON · ET (UTC-5)
Experience
15+ years experience
Education
Rotman School of Management
Languages
English

Overview

Co-founder & CTO of Harvest Commerce, working on HR software. Grew the team to 46 people across 2 countries. Before that: Bell Canada and Microsoft.

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  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Early customers and design partners
  • Second opinions on sales decisions
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  • Courses and coaching offers
  • Paid accelerator offers

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
payrollSaaSsalesHR tech

Experience

  1. Co-founder & CTO
    Feb 2024 - Present
    Harvest Commerce · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Raised $19 million across 3 rounds.
    • Took Harvest Commerce from zero to $5 million ARR.
    • Previously built and sold a small HR software company.
  2. Director of Engineering
    Aug 2020 - Feb 2024
    Bell Canada · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 620ms to 135ms.
    • Mentored 15 engineers through their first promotion.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Feb 2018 - Aug 2020
    Microsoft · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Rebuilt onboarding in SwiftUI and lifted day-one retention 10%.
    • Brought on-call pages for iOS down from 22 a week to 4.
  4. Staff Security Engineer
    May 2014 - Feb 2018
    Shopify · 3 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 45% in two quarters.
    • Built the experimentation framework 31 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  5. Data Engineer
    Apr 2012 - May 2014
    Manulife · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Toronto, ON
    • Wrote the metric definitions the leadership team reviews every week.
    • Replaced 86 hand-built dashboards with one metrics layer people trust.

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Education

  1. Rotman School of Management
    MBA, Business Administration
    2009 - 2011
  2. University of British Columbia
    BSc, Computer Science
    2004 - 2008

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