Ward Penney
Freelance Web Developer & Designer
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolWard Penney is a freelance web developer and product designer in Denver with 13+ years of hands-on experience helping teams envision, design, build, and measure digital products. He brings expert-level Rails skills and a deep mastery of CSS/SASS architecture, paired with advanced JavaScript (including React) and pragmatic front-end engineering patterns like Turbo and Stimulus. A product-minded researcher, he has personally conducted over 1,200 user interviews, facilitated dozens of design sprints, and routinely translates insights into prototypes, analytics, and actionable product work. He’s worked inside agile rhythms with more than 80 teams across startups and consultancies, shipping features that span UX, backend integrations, and high-traffic production systems. Currently building an LLM-driven assistant for late-night comedy writers, he blends technical craft with creative product experiments.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Business Administration, BS Business Administration at University of Colorado BoulderMasters Human-Computer Interaction, Masters Human-Computer Interaction at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (95)
test-kitchen10
testing10
font-size10
dry-rb10
factories10
css-grid10
defaults10
sass-framework10
coercion10
capybara10
bourbon10
css10
sass10
grid-system10
sass-functions10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
thoughtbot/shopify-starter
Jul 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 4 branches in 7 months
ecommerceshopify-starter-themeneatbourbonstarter-theme
wardpenney/prelaunchr
Feb 2015 - Feb 2015
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ruby-on-railsgroupsprizeclosedrails
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