Pete Ward
Engineering Manager at Stord
Hove, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolPete Ward is an engineering manager and product-focused technology leader with 11 years of experience delivering high-performance ecommerce, cloud and IoT systems across agency and client-side environments. He combines hands-on software craft—he still enjoys shipping fixes that hit production—with strategic leadership, having led a department of 100 engineers and replatformed a £100m ecommerce site. Pete has built and scaled teams, culture and delivery processes from startup CTO roles to European head-of-engineering responsibilities, and has practical field experience from shipboard training to troubleshooting in remote oil exploration camps. He prioritises accuracy and the small details while keeping sight of commercial outcomes and fast-paced delivery. Known for creating safe, positive environments where engineers thrive, he translates technical excellence into measurable business impact. Based in Hove, England, he now continues that trajectory at Stord, scaling fulfilment-enabled product journeys.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of Leeds
Github Skills (118)
react-pdf10
pdf-generation10
rest-api10
composer10
pdf-lib10
bundle10
pdf-viewer10
php-framework10
api10
sylius10
dependency-manager10
shopping-cart10
symfony-bundle10
typescript10
symfony10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pennyblack-io/woocommerce-pennyblack
Mar 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:17 releases, 4 reviews, 23 PRs in 1 year 6 months
ReissClothing/Sylius
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
Modern e-commerce for PHP, based on the Symfony2 framework.
Contributions:37 PRs, 161 pushes, 99 branches in 1 year 1 month
php-basedecommercecommercephpsymfony-bundle
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