Andrew Ward
Senior Software Engineer at Made Tech
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Ward is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building mobile and backend systems, currently leading delivery of a React Native app and Kotlin/Jetpack Android work at Made Tech in London. He combines hands-on performance and UX improvements—cutting app launch time substantially and raising a key task success rate from 26% to 92%—with API microservice design and AWS deployments. A lifelong tinkerer and MEng Computer Science graduate from the University of Bristol, he also maintains a long-running open source presence as "rubenwardy," contributing full-stack game engine and modding improvements to projects like Minetest Game. Comfortable across native mobile, TypeScript/React, Python, and infrastructure, he mentors junior engineers and routinely demonstrates the value of modern tooling and testable refactors.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science, Master of Engineering (MEng), Computer Science at University of Bristol
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Github Skills (13)
lua10
game-development10
minetest10
apidoc9
modx9
api9
nodejs6
android-gradle-plugin6
android6
python6
regex6
wtforms6
java6
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
luanti-org/minetest_game
Jan 2016 - Jun 2019
Minetest Game - A lightweight and well-maintained base for Luanti, intended for modding
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 26 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrew primarily contributed to the Minetest Game project by implementing new features and making improvements to the game's core functionality. Their work included adding item descriptions to log messages related to chest interactions and creating an API to provide initial items to new players. The user also refactored code by moving the "nyancat" functionality into a separate mod to improve modularity and maintainability. Furthermore, the user made significant improvements to the creative inventory and sfinv.
minetestgameminetest-gameluantiluanti-game
rubenwardy/coffee
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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