Brian Ward
Software Engineering Manager at NVIDIA
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ward is a software engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience building and operationalizing large-scale cloud and infrastructure systems, now leading engineering at NVIDIA in Richmond, VA. He has deep expertise in Kubernetes, OpenShift, automation, and GPU platform integration—having moved from senior architect and TAM roles at Red Hat to architect solutions that saved customers millions and enabled AI on NVIDIA GPUs. Brian blends low-level design chops with customer-facing delivery, routinely prototyping features, guiding cross-functional teams, and turning requirements into production-ready systems. His background in architecture and even historic home renovation informs a pragmatic, systems-oriented approach to complex engineering problems and infrastructure migrations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Postbaccalaureate Certificate, Computer Science, Postbaccalaureate Certificate at Virginia Commonwealth UniversityMaster of Architecture, not conferred, Master of Architecture, not conferred at University of Notre DameBachelor of Architectural History, Bachelor of Architectural History at University of Virginia
English, French, German
Github Skills (119)
identity10
saml10
authentication10
security10
scheduling10
openshift-origin10
paas10
commons10
continuous-testing10
cybersecurity10
continuous-delivery10
information-security10
continuous-deployment10
kubernetes10
continuous-integration10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
briantward/blog
Apr 2018 - Jun 2023
A place to store my tech notes
Contributions:9 PRs, 67 pushes, 10 branches in 5 years 2 months
placereactjsreactnotes
briantward/openshift-docs
Aug 2020 - Jan 2024
OpenShift 3 and 4 documentation
Contributions:10 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 5 months
kubernetesopenshift
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