Ward Ward
Engineering Manager at Form Health
Carrboro, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWard Ward is an engineering manager and full-stack software leader with over a decade of experience building and scaling web applications across healthcare, academia, and research environments. He combines hands-on expertise in backend (Postgres, Ruby on Rails, Python/Kubernetes) and frontend technologies with a track record of improving processes—introducing Agile, test automation, and migrations to modern frameworks—to reduce defects and speed onboarding. At Sana he led initiatives that cut onboarding time by ~75% and lowered cost-to-serve by ~20%, and at UNC drove NIH-funded tooling that supported clinical genomics and consortium management. Known for empathetic, mentorship-first leadership, he routinely coaches junior engineers while owning architecture and product-aligned delivery. Based in Carrboro, NC, he pairs an MS in Information Science with a background in UX, giving him a rare blend of user-centered design and technical discipline.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Science, Information Science, Masters of Science, Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Github Skills (60)
expert10
pipeline10
bioinformatics10
backend10
admin9
laravel9
php8
panels8
bootstrap7
django7
vue6
accessibility6
angularjs5
component-library5
nuxt5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
yugen/surveys
Oct 2020 - Nov 2023
Contributions:2 PRs, 8 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 1 month
clingen-data-model/clingen-gene-tracker
Feb 2018 - Oct 2022
Web based gene curation workflow tracking application
Contributions:16 reviews, 1503 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 9 months
pipelineweb-basedcurationtrackingbioinformatics
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