Summary
Philip Ward is a Lead API Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing large-scale API platforms and CRM integrations, now driving the Core API Team at PrePass. He has led cross-functional engineering teams at GoDaddy and Swiftpage, owning dozens of APIs and end-to-end products—from Salesforce integrations to mobile and voice-enabled CRM features. Philip blends hands-on architecture and implementation experience (WebAPI, ASP.NET Core, Node/Angular, SQL/Mongo) with people leadership, mentoring engineers and shaping platform roadmaps. His background as an avionics and electronics technician in the Air Force gives him a disciplined, systems-oriented approach to reliability and maintainability. Based in Glendale, AZ, he excels at turning legacy landscapes into standardized, scalable API ecosystems while fostering bottom-up team culture.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Computing Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Computing Computer Science at Arizona State University