Eddie Ford
President at Modern Web Studio
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEddie Ford is a president and hands-on software engineer based in Chicago who combines a teacher’s clarity with over two decades of experience building and optimizing web applications and databases. He leads Modern Web Studio, guiding projects from design through deployment using TDD, CI, Kubernetes, and AWS Lambda to modernize legacy sites. Technically fluent in Python, Java, Ruby on Rails, React and Django REST, he has a track record of designing high-traffic, low-latency school profile systems and durable admin tools at GreatSchools. A former high school math teacher with an M.A. in Mathematics Teacher Education, he brings strong analytical rigor and an educator’s knack for making complex systems understandable. Eddie’s pragmatic focus on reducing disk reads and database complexity shows a deep operational awareness often overlooked in development-led founders.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (6)
refer10
google-maps-api10
google-maps9
get-started9
api9
javascript7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
seckboy/udacity_cicd
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:347 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
seckboy/googleMaps-offline-navigator
Feb 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:28 pushes, 16 branches in 1 month
apiudacitygoogle-maps-apijavascriptstrategy
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