Stella Ward
Senior Software Engineer at The Farmer's Dog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolStella Ward is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with a decade of experience building and stabilizing production systems across fintech, videoconferencing, and consumer services. She has led backend architecture and scaling efforts—most recently owning finance and accounting systems at Universe and now driving engineering at The Farmer's Dog—while also mentoring teams to adopt better habits and practices. Her background spans full-stack and distributed systems work, from designing big-data pipelines and DynamoDB interfaces to hardening order-execution Java pipelines. She combines a pragmatic, hands-on approach to shipping reliable systems with a knack for translating messy business needs into maintainable technical solutions. A former writer and actor turned engineer, she brings an uncommon mix of communication, empathy, and persistence to thorny technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
General Arts & Science Music Industry Arts, General Arts & Science Music Industry Arts at Fanshawe CollegeWeb Development, Web Development at Bitmaker Labs
Github Skills (45)
erb10
aws-sdk10
scanner9
ruby9
haml9
chrome-extension9
aws9
dynamodb9
sdk9
grunt-plugins8
package8
javascript7
npm7
cuckoo7
security7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
makeready/makeready.github.io
Nov 2015 - Sep 2023
Contributions:17 pushes in 7 years 11 months
47colborne/dynamini
Sep 2015 - Apr 2019
Lightweight DynamoDB interface gem designed as a drop-in replacement for ActiveRecord.
Contributions:6 releases, 148 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 7 months
drop-inrubydynamodbgemactiverecord
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