Chris Ward
Senior Software Development Engineer at IBM
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChris Ward is a seasoned software engineer with over four decades of experience at IBM, currently senior SDE working on IBM Application Connect Enterprise and long‑standing contributions across Storage, Research, and Software groups. A Cambridge‑educated electrical engineer with First Class honours, he has bridged research and productisation—moving Blue Gene/Q and research prototypes into practical enterprise software and even briefly helping productise research at Red Hat. Comfortable across systems, control engineering and high‑performance computing, he brings deep institutional knowledge and a pragmatic eye for making research deliverable in production. Based in Winchester, he blends legacy systems expertise with contemporary integration work, and maintains a curious personal side (his screensavers have become public). Known for longevity and adaptability, he quietly pairs rigorous engineering discipline with a knack for turning experimental results into usable, supported products.
8 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Engineering (Electrical Sciences Tripos), First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Engineering (Electrical Sciences Tripos), First Class Honours at University of CambridgeMaths, Physics, Chemistry, Maths, Physics, Chemistry at Norwich School, Norwich, England
English, German, French
Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/BlueMatter
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
This is BlueMatter, the molecular dynamics application which was used to exercise the BlueGene/L and BlueGene/P range of supercomputers. This code is written to the hardware interfaces on BlueGene/L and BlueGene/P, rather than to MPI; so it would require some rework to be usable on current supercomputers. Code not written by IBMers has been removed; you are recommended to visit http://fftw.org/ and http://numerical.recipes/ to find the missing code.
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 10 months
mpirecipesmolecular-dynamicsrequirevisit
tjcw/xdp-tutorial
Jul 2022 - Nov 2022
XDP tutorial
Contributions:2 PRs, 458 pushes, 9 branches in 4 months
xdp
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