John Ward
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Ward is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building large-scale systems and leading cross-functional teams at Meta, Amazon, and growth-stage startups. He currently leads Spatial Frameworks at Meta, shaping spatial UI, graphics, simulation and distributed scene understanding for next-generation hardware. Previously he scaled Gro Intelligence from its founding tech stack to a company valued at $850M and led ML-driven financial intelligence teams at Amazon. His background spans full-stack engineering, data pipelines, geospatial systems (NASA) and academic research in secure systems, blending production rigor with research-level thinking. Based in New York, he combines hands-on coding (a self-deprecating GitHub bio: "Dereferencing null pointers @facebook") with deep technical leadership across product, infrastructure and ML.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at New York UniversityMaster's degree Data Science, Master's degree Data Science at Harvard University
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Github Skills (26)
markdown10
appwrite10
javascript10
ios10
mobile-development10
react-native10
api-client10
app-framework10
cross-platform10
dsa-algorithm10
api10
android10
mobile10
react10
kubernetes7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
itsjohnward/scary-grocery
Feb 2016 - Sep 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 9 years 9 months
itsjohnward/dotfiles
Jun 2015 - Feb 2026
Contributions:70 pushes, 4 branches, 2 comments in 10 years 10 months
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