William Ward
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolWilliam Ward is a Principal Software Engineering Manager based in Fort Worth with 11 years of engineering experience and over eight years building web, mobile, and desktop applications alongside hands-on Linux and Windows systems administration. He blends leadership at Microsoft with a long history of founding and running development firms, where he led cloud infrastructure, container orchestration, and DevOps for zero-downtime production environments. William has managed teams and product delivery across academia, fintech, and enterprise hardware vendors, repeatedly moving projects from prototype to scaled operations. He contributes to open-source Django tooling, improving backend correctness and test coverage, showing a pragmatic focus on maintainability and automation. Known for teaching and client-facing roles, he pairs deep technical craft with strong customer and stakeholder communication.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Bachelor's Degree Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Texas Christian University
English
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Github Skills (14)
unit-testing10
python10
modeling10
django10
testing10
iis6
passenger6
nginx6
docker6
javascript6
google-chrome6
phusion6
kohana6
dockerfile6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
burke-software/django-report-builder
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
This is a github mirror for django-report-builder which is hosted on Gitlab. Django Report Builder is a GUI for Django ORM. Build custom queries and display results. Targets sys admins and capable end users who might not be able to program.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:William primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Django application's backend code. Their commits addressed a 'function object not iterable error' and refactored the `get_allowed_models` function for runtime execution. Furthermore, the user added and fixed unit tests to ensure code quality and robustness, making assertions about the return values of functions. These changes indicate a focus on code correctness, maintainability, and testing within the Django framework.
pythondjangoableend-usersorm
willseward/go-configurator
Apr 2016 - Jul 2020
Contributions:6 releases, 17 commits, 20 pushes in 4 years 4 months
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