Aaron Ward

Aaron Ward is a Senior Software Engineer at Insight Global, specializing in the Education Edition of Minecraft since July 2023. Prior to this role, Aaron gained experience as a Software Engineer at Red Lens Games, contributing to the Actor Systems team for Minecraft, and at 343 Industries, where support was provided for the Halo Infinite campaign using C++ and Lua scripting. Previous positions include software development at Turn 10 Studios for the Forza series, multimedia development for the Nintendo Switch at Nintendo Technology Dev, and work on the Nintendo Web Framework for the Wii U with Nintendo Software Technology. Early career experience includes software engineering roles at Aerotek and flash development at Enter The Studio and Smashing Ideas. Aaron holds a BS in Real Time Interactive Simulation from DigiPen Institute of Technology.