Brian Ward
VP Of Product Engineering at Estendio
Eaglesham, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ward is a pragmatic software engineering leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building scalable, user-focused products and teams from Scotland. As VP of Product Engineering at Estendio he blends product-minded leadership with applied AI, having integrated Agentic and Conversational AI to enhance student learning experiences. His technical background spans TypeScript, Deno, PHP, Python and Ruby, and he has designed large-scale systems including a cookieless display ad network powered by Kafka and a high-throughput authentication/component architecture for customer success portals. Brian is a lead-from-the-front manager who prioritises team enjoyment and continuous improvement while still getting his hands dirty in code and architecture. He combines enterprise-grade reliability with practical experimentation, making him adept at turning complex education and advertising problems into resilient, user-centered solutions.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Computing Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computing Science at Edinburgh Napier University
Github Skills (40)
minecraft9
classifier9
drupal-module8
sublime-text8
schema7
openstreetmap7
overpass-api7
validation7
bots7
sentiment-analysis7
nodejs6
entity-extraction6
chatbot5
nlp5
maps5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
raptor-js/kernel
Oct 2024 - Mar 2026
Contributions:6 releases, 124 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 5 months
briward/comet
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 34 pushes, 4 branches in 5 days
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