Summary
Cade Ward is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently serves as Engineering Manager and Outcome Owner for Platform Engineering at a streaming media company, reporting directly to the CEO. He specializes in building scalable, service-oriented platforms using Elixir/Phoenix, OTP, LiveView, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, powering core capabilities like auth, payments, live chat, and analytics across TV, web, and mobile clients. Cade blends hands-on engineering with product-oriented ownership, preferring simple, highly automated solutions and taking responsibility for his team’s outcomes. His background includes building production infrastructure from scratch, automating CI/CD pipelines, and applying pragmatic full‑stack skills from React and Node to backend systems, which helps him remove roadblocks and enable other teams to move faster. Notably, he transitioned from senior engineer to outcome owner while still contributing technically, reflecting both deep technical curiosity and leadership that focuses on measurable team success.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at Utah State University
Portuguese