Matt Ward
Co-Founder CEO at Apoxy
South Lake Tahoe, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatt Ward is a founder-and-engineer with 12 years of experience building developer-focused APIs and production services, currently leading Apoxy as Co-Founder and CEO to simplify API "glue" code. Previously an early engineer at Mux and a long-tenured platform contributor at YouTube, he blends product sensibility with deep hands-on work across player playback, service rebuilds, and cross-platform infrastructure. He has a track record of taking scattered systems to unified, deployable services used by first-party mobile and web apps. Based in South Lake Tahoe, he pairs startup grit with formal CS training from Columbia and recent founder education at Y Combinator. Known for improving API developer experience, he’s as comfortable shipping client-side UI fixes as he is designing backend services that make integrations easier. A former freelancer and educator, he still brings practical, client-facing empathy to technical decisions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Arts Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Computer Science at Columbia UniversityHigh School, High School at Bergen Catholic High School
Github Skills (176)
swagger10
rest-api10
openapi10
operator10
postgres-operator10
grpc10
data-infrastructure10
restful-api10
javascript9
sqlc9
video-processing9
crm9
golang9
salesforce9
video-streaming9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
theRealWardo/grpc-gateway
Sep 2017 - Feb 2020
gRPC to JSON proxy generator
Contributions:33 pushes, 5 branches, 2 tags in 2 years 5 months
to-jsonproxygrpcproxy-generatorjson
theRealWardo/home
Oct 2016 - Sep 2022
config files and stuff
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years
dotfilesconfigurationconfigconfig-files
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