Jeff Ward
Principal Software Engineer at Saga Education
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Ward is a Principal Software Engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building product-facing systems and developer tooling, currently leading engineering at Saga Education. He combines startup grit from founding Woot Math with enterprise-scale experience from Disney Interactive, delivering robust back-end systems and performance optimizations. An electrical engineering graduate from Colorado School of Mines, Jeff brings a hardware-informed perspective to software problems, evident in low-level contributions to the Haxe compiler and hxcpp runtime. His open-source work includes debugging lambdas, parseInt optimizations, telemetry and memory profiling for Haxe’s C++ backend—skills that translate into measurable runtime and observability improvements. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he excels at bridging product needs and compiler/runtime internals to squeeze performance out of complex stacks. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, deep-dive engineering that uncovers non-obvious bottlenecks and hard-to-reproduce platform issues.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Colorado School of MinesFruita Monument High School
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Github contributions (5)
HaxeFoundation/hxcpp
Jun 2015 - Mar 2017
Runtime files for c++ backend for haxe
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:11 commits, 7 PRs, 40 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jeff primarily worked on enhancing the performance and functionality of the C++ backend for the Haxe compiler. Their contributions involved implementing and debugging telemetry features, including memory allocation tracking and profiling. They also addressed platform-specific issues, such as fixing socket behavior on macOS. Furthermore, the user refactored the telemetry system to improve efficiency and accuracy.
cppruntimebackendhaxebuild-tool
HaxeFoundation/haxe
Sep 2015 - Oct 2018
Haxe - The Cross-Platform Toolkit
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 13 PRs, 176 comments in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jeff made several contributions to the Haxe compiler and standard library. They focused on improving debugging information related to lambdas, adding functionality related to infinity values in AS3, and optimizing the `parseInt` function. Additionally, they addressed an issue related to Int32 negation and implemented changes to the `Date` class to reference `haxe.Timer.stamp`.
macroscppopenflcompilertranspiler
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