Jeff Ward
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolJeff Ward is a senior software engineer with 12 years of experience building performance-sensitive systems across games, mobile, and observability tooling, currently contributing to the Flutter SDK at Datadog. He progressed from systems programming and game engine architecture to leading engineering teams as Director of Engineering at WillowTree, blending hands-on coding with people and delivery leadership. Jeff’s background includes embedding Dart into game engines and shipping real-time systems, giving him a rare cross-domain fluency in C++, Dart/Flutter, and large-scale application design. Based in Charlottesville, VA, he pairs a B.S. in Computer Science and Media Arts with a pragmatic, product-minded approach to engineering tradeoffs. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves fluidly between deep technical problems and mentorship, making incremental technical bets that accelerate teams and products.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Computer Science, Media Arts and Design, B.S., Computer Science, Media Arts and Design at James Madison University
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Github Skills (186)
measurement10
nuget10
hugo10
mobile-development10
windows10
distributed-tracing10
drone-ci10
xamarin-ios10
drawer10
dart2js10
appium10
wpf10
game-development10
inspect10
godot10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
willowtreeapps/fastlane-plugin-msbuild
Feb 2017 - Jun 2019
MSBuild / Xamarin actions for Fastlane
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
dotnetfastlanemsbuildcsharpxamarin
willowtreeapps/namegame-cs
Aug 2016 - Apr 2020
Name Game skeleton project for C#
Contributions:3 PRs, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
skeletoncsharpproject-skeletongame-development
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