Paul Ward
Software Engineer at Alert Logic
Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ward is a software engineer and systems administrator with 17 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining large, heterogeneous server environments and backend services. Currently at Alert Logic, he maintains legacy PHP systems while designing and implementing modern Go-based microservices deployed with Docker and Chef. His background spans low-level Unix utility programming in C, kernel module work, and high-level web and database front-ends, reflecting deep comfort across the stack. Paul has repeatedly bridged ops and dev roles—replacing whole PHP platforms with Go, operating NOC appliances, and building bespoke tools in languages from Pike to Common Lisp. Based in Cardiff, he brings practical reliability engineering to projects with a penchant for pragmatic modernization rather than flashy rewrites.
17 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
C++ Programming, Computer Programming, C++ Programming, Computer Programming at Cardiff University / Prifysgol CaerdyddNVQ Level II, 'Using IT', NVQ Level II, 'Using IT' at Cardiff ITecHigh School, Computer Studies, English, Maths, Science, High School, Computer Studies, English, Maths, Science at Bishop of Llandaff High School
English
Github Skills (6)
python6
c-library4
cpp3
hardware3
lfe3
portability2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Asmodai/cl-hacks
Mar 2010 - Dec 2012
Contributions:41 commits in 2 years 9 months
Asmodai/.emacs.d
Jan 2012 - Aug 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 261 commits, 145 pushes in 10 years 8 months
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