Ben Ward
Chief Technology Officer (fractional) at Central Station Records
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ward is a fractional CTO and seasoned technology leader with 11 years of experience delivering cloud, DevOps and platform solutions across wellness, music, and sustainability-focused ventures. He blends hands-on engineering and solution architecture with strategic leadership—recently scaling a wearables and AI-backed longevity product and delivering an MVP that supported a $2M raise for an environmental impact startup. Based in Sydney, he leads IT and CloudOps for creative businesses while advising on ESG, tokenisation, green cloud, and ethical AI, bringing rare domain depth in regenerative agriculture, carbon markets and energy-efficient DLT. A systems thinker and clear communicator, he pairs technical delivery with program-building experience—from founding community sustainability initiatives to running a hospitality-social enterprise—so he understands product, people and planet in equal measure.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
The University of SydneyFellowship Sustainability Leadership, Fellowship Sustainability Leadership at The Centre for Sustainability Leadership
Github Skills (20)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
bdub/greenhouse-site
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:12 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
bdub/kilter_site
Jul 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
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