Rob Ward
President Of The Board Of Directors at Salt Lake Figure Skating
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRob Ward is a senior software leader and operator with 15+ years delivering high-value systems and nine years in engineering leadership roles, currently guiding global EV charging software at Shell Recharge and serving as President of the Salt Lake Figure Skating board. He has led large-scale, mission-critical platforms—most notably Target’s POS systems across 50,000+ registers—and founded a SaaS company for reservation and inventory management, combining product instincts with hands-on engineering. Technically grounded from early work on payment gateways and Java server components, he contributes to open-source security tooling (notably implementing and hardening the PathMatcher in the pac4j project). Known for turning around business systems at Black Diamond and scaling distributed teams, he blends strategic recruitment and planning with pragmatic code-level improvements. Based in Salt Lake City, he pairs a Master’s in IT Software Engineering with a background in geology, reflecting a pragmatic, analytical approach to complex problems.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Master IT Software Engineering, Master IT Software Engineering at QUT (Queensland University of Technology)BSc Geology, BSc Geology at University of Southern QueenslandBSc Honors Geology, BSc Honors Geology at Curtin University
Github Skills (16)
security10
javas10
authentication10
user-authentication10
authorizations10
java10
authorization10
testing10
junit9
regular-expression9
openid-connect7
oauth7
jwt7
saml7
ldap7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pac4j/pac4j
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Security engine for Java (authentication, authorization, multi frameworks): OAuth, CAS, SAML, OpenID Connect, LDAP, JWT...
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 9 days
Contributions summary:Rob primarily contributed to the `PathMatcher` component, a core part of the security engine. Their work involved implementing the initial `PathMatcher` functionality, including excluding paths and branches, as well as adding validation and tests. Furthermore, the user updated javadoc for the component, and refactored code to improve the component's API. They also refactored the component by renaming methods and adding setters for easier configuration.
j2emulti-frameworksj2eespring-mvcratpack
wardr/dropwizard-pac4j-demo
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:5 PRs, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 24 days
javapac4jdropwizard
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