John Ward
Founder & CTO at The Modern Builder
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ward is a seasoned Founder and Fractional CTO with 25 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently helping startups and scale-ups ship products that sell. He blends deep technical expertise across embedded, IoT, mobile, SaaS, 3D graphics and cloud architecture with commercial savvy gained during a seven-year pivot into sales and roles up to VP of Automotive Sales. John has led large engineering teams, revitalised delivery practices (including containerized, AWS-based platforms at Dematic), and rescued failing MVPs while also defining product roadmaps and go-to-market alignment. He contributes to open source—maintaining GNOME projects and improving kafka-rust examples and tests—demonstrating practical systems work in Rust and distributed messaging. Known for bridging technical and sales teams, he has worked with firms like Apple, Google, Tesla and NXP, and often operates simultaneously as CTO and commercial lead to accelerate traction, not just delivery. Based in Stevenage, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery experience to scale teams and products end-to-end.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, BSc (Hons) Software Engineering at Newcastle University
Github Skills (3)
kafka10
rust10
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kafka-rust/kafka-rust
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Rust client for Apache Kafka
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 41 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:John contributed to the `kafka-rust` repository, a Rust client for Apache Kafka. Their commits included modifications to example code, such as `example-fetch.rs`, `console-producer.rs`, and `offset-monitor.rs`, suggesting they were working on demonstrating and improving the client's functionality. The changes encompass updating dependencies and adding new features to examples, as well as addressing integration test issues. These changes focused on refining the client's usability and testing aspects.
apache-kafkakafka-rustrustrust-clientapache
johnward/algorithms_in_rust
Sep 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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