Walker Ward
Flight Software Engineer II - Blue Ring at Blue Origin
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolWalker Ward is a flight software engineer with nine years of experience building and validating avionics and embedded systems, currently contributing to Blue Origin’s Blue Ring flight software. At Blue Origin he has progressed from Software Development Engineer to Flight Software Engineer II, working on New Glenn navigation computer V&V, flight termination units, and GenAI-enabled engineering tooling. He combines hands-on embedded V&V with developer productivity and test automation experience from roles at Dataminr and university research labs. Based in Phoenix, Walker is comfortable shipping safety-critical software under launch cadence and has earned multiple liftoff awards for operational contributions. Outside work he maintains active personal projects that keep his code and systems skills sharp, reflecting a blend of practical flight systems rigor and continuous learning.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Montana State University-BozemanHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Spanaway Lake High School
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (21)
intellij9
jetbrains9
pycharm8
copilot8
vscode7
developer-tools6
esxi6
chatgpt6
openai5
ai5
llm5
open-source5
visual-studio-code5
intel4
hardware4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Phred7/minecraft_server
Feb 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 452 pushes, 11 branches in 3 months
Phred7/minecraft_server_modded
May 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:430 commits, 286 pushes in 4 months
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