Ben Ward
Staff Software Engineer at Caregentic
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ward is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 16 years of experience building user-focused web platforms and developer-facing products. He’s a front-end specialist who has led technical design and implementation of React/Next.js applications, component systems, and integrated accessibility testing while contributing across full stacks. Ben’s career spans founding a product consultancy, shipping large-scale syndication and SDK platforms at Twitter, and driving privacy-by-design product work at Fitbit during its Google acquisition. He combines product leadership and hands-on engineering—comfortable making technology selections, scaling cross-team integrations, and mentoring teams through organizational change. A practical maker with a knack for delighting users, he still ships code and runs his own apps like Charm, reflecting an entrepreneur’s attention to craft and usability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computation, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computation at The University of Manchester
Github Skills (62)
mastodon-app10
mastodon-api10
javascript9
pandora9
single-page9
media-library9
icecast9
css9
appointment9
installer9
streaming9
aggregates9
uikit8
shoutcast8
audio8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BFFdotFM/broadcast
Sep 2021 - Nov 2024
Configuration source for BFF.fm's Azuracast (Liquidsoap) deployment
Contributions:4 PRs, 21 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
azuracastliquidsoapradio-stationscrobblingstreaming-audio
BenWard/etc
Jan 2015 - Oct 2024
Contributions:37 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 11 months
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