Conner Ward
Software Engineer, XR Research at Mercedes-Benz Research & Development North America, Inc.
San Bruno, California, United States
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Top SchoolConner Ward is a software engineer with a decade of experience building XR, IoT, and UX-driven systems from prototype to executive deployment in the San Francisco Bay Area. He currently develops full-stack XR applications at Mercedes-Benz R&D, combining Unity, computer vision, embedded sensors, and real-time concurrency to bridge research and product. Prior roles span automotive and sustainable-energy startups where he led cross-disciplinary teams, managed cloud-native IoT infrastructures on AWS, and improved operator usability through hands-on fabrication and UX iteration. Conner’s background in HCI and practical shop skills let him prototype physical interfaces (laser cutting, microcontrollers) as readily as cloud services and machine-learning labeling pipelines. He brings a rare blend of product-minded UX, embedded systems expertise, and operational experience in bringing research demos into production-ready deployments.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Film/Television Production, Film/Television Production at De Anza CollegeComputer Science Honors Institute, Computer Science Honors Institute at Foothill CollegeCapuchino High SchoolUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (19)
duplicate-detection7
image-analysis6
esp325
sift5
esp82665
python5
iot3
dockerfile3
search-engine3
mqtt-protocol3
mqtt3
microcontroller3
scraper2
docker2
web-crawler1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
connerkward/Google-Fit-Discord-Bot
May 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:29 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
connerkward/SmartSpaceBucket
Aug 2019 - Sep 2020
MQTT protocol, ESP01, ESP8266, ESP32 Microcontroller, Grow-band LEDs for Urban Farming
Contributions:1 release, 63 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 1 month
esp01ledsmqtt-protocolbandesp8266
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