Don Ward
Customer Engineer Specialist at Google
Detroit, Michigan, United States
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Top SchoolDon Ward is a seasoned software engineer and customer-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building and leading mobile and backend teams, now serving as a Customer Engineer Specialist at Google. He brings deep mobile expertise from a decade at Rocket Mortgage where he progressed from Senior Android Developer to Director of Mobile Development, shipping apps with over a million active users and rapidly turning prototypes into production (including smartwatch apps delivered within months). Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, he has led emerging-technology prototyping and integration while also scaling cross-functional teams in Agile environments. Based in Detroit, he combines low-level systems grounding from early controls and automation work with modern cloud and customer engineering practices. Known among peers as a practical innovator and "geek" who enjoys learning new tech, he consistently translates bleeding-edge ideas into usable customer solutions.
11 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BASC, Electrical Engineering, BASC, Electrical Engineering at University of Windsor
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Github Skills (13)
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flutter5
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Github contributions (5)
donwardpeng/midevfest
May 2019 - Sep 2019
Michigan DevFest Site in Flutter
Contributions:82 commits, 2 PRs, 79 pushes in 4 months
flutterdevfestdartmichigan
manan-jadhav/gdg-windsor-event-website
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:74 commits, 15 PRs, 51 pushes in 4 months
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