Stephen Ward
Senior System Analyst Full-Stack .NET Developer at Fisheries and Oceans Canada / Pêches et Océans Canada
Canada
Summary
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SeniorStephen Ward is a seasoned Senior System Analyst and Full-Stack .NET developer based in Canada with nearly three decades of enterprise application experience and 13 years in current-focused roles. He designs, builds and maintains complex government systems—ranging from smart-client and ASP.NET Web Forms applications to Azure-hosted microservices—translating policy-driven requirements into scalable, auditable solutions. Skilled across C#, VB.NET, LLBLGen/Entity Framework, WinForms, Telerik UI, MS SQL and CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps, he consistently ships accessible, test-automated releases within Agile teams. Stephen has led solution teams and mentored peers while supporting operational transitions of cloud applications into production. An attentive contributor to open-source (including pragmatic fixes to the well-known octokit.rb GitHub API client), he pairs deep legacy modernization experience with current cloud and UX tooling. He’s known for turning complex regulatory workflows into user-friendly, reliably testable systems that meet stringent government standards.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (4)
github-api10
documentation10
ruby10
octokit9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.rb
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
Ruby toolkit for the GitHub API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to the documentation and codebase of the Octokit Ruby library. Their work included fixing method definitions and examples, specifically within the labels and issues modules. The user also addressed type discrepancies, changing strings to integers and implementing necessary corrections to the code and examples. These changes suggest a focus on improving the accuracy and usability of the Octokit API client.
apioctokit-rbsdkruby
StephenOTT/TAXII-Server
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
TAXII Server supporting the 2.1 spec.
Contributions:3 releases, 34 commits, 22 pushes in 1 month
taxiitaxii-serverspecserverjava
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