Ben Ward
Web Engineer at Sesame
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
18 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 (46)
css10
javascript9
shoutcast8
streaming8
liquidsoap8
webradio8
wordpress8
icecast8
station7
rss7
twitter7
react-component7
mobile-application7
php7
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
BenWard/tumblr2wordpress
Jan 2010 - May 2013
A single-page PHP script to export all public posts from a Tumblr account and export them as Wordpress extended RSS. (Enhancement fork of Hao Chen's Tumblr2Wordpress.)
Contributions:22 commits, 1 issue in 3 years 4 months
phprsswordpress
BenWard/etc
Jan 2015 - Jun 2026
Contributions:39 pushes, 6 branches in 11 years 7 months
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