Derrick Ward
Principal Software Engineer at Message Bridge
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolDerrick Ward is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack solutions across finance, healthcare, and enterprise SaaS, currently leading embedded analytics architecture at Message Bridge after shaping Power BI embedding and Copilot dashboards while at Microsoft. He blends front-end leadership (React/Angular) with backend systems (C#, .NET Core, Java, serverless) and has a history of creating reusable frameworks—most notably a settings-driven data grid and a .NET ETL framework that boosted engineering velocity. Derrick pairs hands-on engineering with mentorship and architecture review practice, driving telemetry, performance, and reusable UI patterns across large teams. His background spans native mobile, desktop WPF, embedded systems and trading-floor integrations, reflecting uncommon breadth from Arduino to enterprise BI. Pursuing an MSCpE at Syracuse and an MBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he brings both technical depth and growing product/business fluency, with family roots in Barbados and St. Vincent informing a global perspective.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Engineering - BSE, Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of EngineeringMaster of Science - MSCpE, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MSCpE, Computer Engineering at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer ScienceMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
matching3
java2
kotlin2
assembly2
angular1
ide1
webapp1
planning1
microsoft1
android1
react1
architecture1
instruction-set1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
dward330/ORM
Jun 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
hajdukm2/SCCF-EDS
Jun 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:16 PRs, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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