Ben Ward
Senior Software Engineer at Real Geeks
Makawao, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Ward is a Senior Software Engineer with 13+ years building scalable, high-performance web systems for startups, nonprofits, and Fortune 500 clients across the US and Japan. He’s a full‑stack builder who prefers React and Rails and has shipped large-scale products handling millions of users and mass email/SMS workflows. As a serial founder and former CTO/VP of Engineering, he blends hands-on coding with product-minded leadership, having led engineering teams, launched SaaS products, and earned a patent for transaction categorization. His work spans security- and compliance-sensitive domains—finance, social lending, and accounting—where he’s designed robust, auditable systems. Based in Makawao, Hawaii, he also gives back by teaching Rails and React workshops and thrives on turning ambiguous problems into ship-ready solutions. An unusual strength: deep operational experience running multi-datacenter infrastructure early in his career, which informs his pragmatic approach to reliability and scaling.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Tokyo International UniversityBFA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies, BFA, Computer Science, East Asian Studies at Brandeis University
Japanese
Stackoverflow
33reputation
3kreached
1answer
2questions
Github Skills (37)
qbwc6
reactstrap6
ruby-on-rails6
react6
flux6
soap6
hex6
phoenix-framework5
administration4
bootstrap4
package4
elixir4
bootstrap-table3
rails3
react-table3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cheqbook/intuit_ids_aggcat
Apr 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 11 months
ben-ward/anemone
Jan 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
pythonspiderspider-frameworkframeworkweb-spider
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