Corey Ward
Co-Founder And CTO at Project Read AI
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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RockstarCorey Ward is a pragmatic engineering leader and startup CTO with 15 years building high-impact web products for teams like Figma, Netlify, Pentagram, and ASICS. As co-founder and CTO of Project Read AI, he combines deep front-end and CMS architecture experience with emerging AI to deliver personalized literacy tools that keep teachers in the loop. Known for spotting cross-disciplinary patterns, he favors well-designed defaults, small talent-dense teams, and solving problems from first principles. His background ranges from scaling marketing ecosystems and experimentation platforms at Figma to running end-to-end product and operations for early-stage ventures, and he even grew a consumer CPG business internationally. Based in Austin, he brings an engineer’s attention to detail without losing sight of product and human outcomes, applying that rigor now at the intersection of AI and public education.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
78,800reputation
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1,180answers
21questions
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routes
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Github Skills (200)
css-transitions10
routes10
visual-studio10
jsx10
wistia10
relational10
browser10
minification10
api10
html10
zero-dependencies10
middleman10
shim10
static-site-generator10
nodejs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
coreyward/gatsby-plugin-segment-analytics
Feb 2019 - Jun 2021
Contributions:21 commits, 15 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 years 4 months
gatsbygatsby-pluginsegmentiosegment-analytics
coreyward/sanity-plugin-table
Jan 2020 - Apr 2022
Table schema type and input component for Sanity CMS
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
cmssanitytable-schemasanity-cms
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