Christopher Ward
User Experience Designer at CWard Studios
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Ward is a seasoned User Experience Designer with 14 years of hands-on experience and over a decade creating user-centered designs for web and native applications from his San Francisco base. He blends deep UX craft—research, design thinking, system thinking, prototyping and usability testing—with front-end chops (HTML5, CSS3, Angular, Webflow) to close the gap between design and implementation. As Principal at CWard Studios and through senior roles at Teradata, Pure Storage and Workday, he has led large, cross-functional teams to deliver accessible, enterprise-grade products and mentored designers on scalable design standards. He also contributes to open-source tooling and DevOps on side projects—improving CI/CD, Docker deployments and security for a D&D SRD API and its database—demonstrating curiosity beyond visual design. Known for simplifying complex systems into elegant, WCAG-compliant experiences, he repeatedly turns research insights into pragmatic products that meet business goals.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Illustration Graphic Design, Illustration Graphic Design at UCNJ Union College of Union County, NJGraphic Design Fine Art Animation, Graphic Design Fine Art Animation at Academy of Art UniverstiyComputer Animation; Classical and Jazz Bass, Computer Animation; Classical and Jazz Bass at Cabrillo College
German
Github Skills (27)
javascript10
docker10
apidoc10
typescript10
dockers10
cicd10
mongodb-database10
api10
typescript-types10
heroku10
nodejs10
typescripts10
mongodb10
devops10
expressjs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
5e-bits/5e-srd-api
Dec 2019 - Dec 2022
REST API to access D&D 5th Edition SRD database
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:6 releases, 375 reviews, 186 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to improving the deployment and security aspects of the API. Their work included adding Docker support for Heroku, bumping security-related package versions, and integrating a Continuous Integration pipeline through Travis CI. Furthermore, the user made changes to the documentation and configurations, and they were involved in transitioning from a Slack chat to Discord, which also showed their interest in community support and management. The user implemented the initial steps to support Typescript as well.
api5th-editiondatabaserestrest-api
5e-bits/5e-database
Mar 2019 - Jan 2023
Database for the D&D 5th Edition API
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 375 reviews, 188 commits in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily focused on improving the codebase's maintainability and deployment. Their work involved refactoring existing JavaScript files and adjusting spacing and indentation. They also introduced several scripts for database management, including a script for nuking and replacing the entire database, and integrated CI/CD pipelines. Furthermore, the user updated the project's build process with Docker and yarn and included tests.
apifaunadb5th-editionnosql-databasedatabases
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