Ward Coessens
Senior Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolWard Coessens is a Senior Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience helping teams turn complex domain needs—ranging from retail to R&D—into pragmatic, high-quality software. Now at AWS, he coaches and enables cross-functional teams to shape target architectures and operationalize patterns like microservices and event-driven systems. A longtime ThoughtWorks technologist, he blends hands-on engineering with agile coaching to keep delivery velocity aligned with sustainable design. Based in Ghent, Belgium, he’s equally curious about new technologies and team dynamics, recently exploring dynamic team setups as much as architectural patterns. His background in hospitality management gives him an uncommon emphasis on user-centered solutions and effective stakeholder communication.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Hotel Management, Bachelor Hotel Management at Katholieke Hogeschool Brugge-Oostende
English, French, German, Dutch
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (4)
keyboard-shortcuts6
cpu3
infrastructure2
infrastructure-as-code1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
fahrrad/zinq
Mar 2016 - Mar 2021
Contributions:8 pushes, 6 branches, 3 issues in 5 years 1 month
fahrrad/TIL
Mar 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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