Chris Ward is a seasoned web developer and frontend engineering manager with 11 years of professional experience and a broader 18+ year history leading teams and modernizing web platforms. He has driven large migrations and introduced micro front-end architectures with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility compliance, bringing both technical rigor and process improvements to finance and HR SaaS products. Comfortable across React, AngularJS, legacy stacks and modern frontend patterns, he pairs hands-on coding with coaching, code review culture, and agile/Scrum leadership. Based in Brunswick, Maine, he balances a curiosity for emerging tech—especially crypto—with creative pursuits in art and design, which inform his focus on polished, user-centered interfaces. Notably, he has a track record of establishing frontend standards that scale across teams and versions, turning legacy codebases into maintainable, accessible products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Associate of Science - AS Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Vermont Technical College
BS Computer Science and Information Technology, BS Computer Science and Information Technology at Kaplan University
Front end development standards and best practices in: Accessibility, CSS & CSS3, HTML & HTML5, JavaScript & jQuery.
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
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