Ward Maddux
Sr. Technical Account Manager at Aerospike
Golden, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWard Maddux is a seasoned technical account and customer success leader with 30+ years of hands-on experience spanning database engineering, product management, and enterprise sales engineering. Currently a Sr. Technical Account Manager at Aerospike, he has a strong track record helping customers adopt and integrate complex data platforms across companies like Workday, Yugabyte, VMware/Pivotal, and Informix. He combines deep technical knowledge of databases and data engineering with a consultative approach that prioritizes business outcomes, onboarding, and escalation management. Known for building and leading teams, driving process improvements, and translating technical complexity into clear guidance, he earned recognition such as an Impact Award at Yugabyte. Based in Golden, Colorado, Ward brings a rare blend of early systems-level engineering experience (including work on the International Space Station) together with modern cloud and distributed database expertise. His career shows a consistent focus on making advanced data technologies practical and adoptable for large organizations.
8 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
BE Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Math, BE Electrical Engineering Computer Science and Math at Vanderbilt University
Github Skills (15)
cpp10
high-performance10
sql-database9
database9
cloud-native9
sql9
scale-out9
databases9
raft8
distributed-systems8
kubernetes8
yugabytedb8
paxos8
distributed-database8
oltp7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
wmaddux/first_streamlit_app
Sep 2023 - Sep 2023
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
wmaddux/greenplum-wind-tunnel
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 18 days
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