Brandon Ward

Brandon Ward is a software engineer who currently works at StackHawk. Brandon has also worked at Promontory MortgagePath LLC, Zen Planner, and Charles Schwab. Brandon has been recognized for their excellence in contributing to the company's goals, conducting and guiding architecture reviews, and mentoring and guiding fellow engineers in Spring, Kotlin, Java, and Gradle best practices. Brandon has also enhanced the Kubernetes ecosystem through the creation of a development cluster to enhance the development lifecycle. In addition, they have helped with the implementation of CI/CD processes to cut release times down from 3 months to 1 week. Brandon has also migrated Java/Kotlin micro-services from Maven builds to Gradle builds with Kotlin DSL build scripts.

Brandon Ward earned a Master's Degree in Computer Software Engineering from Regis University. Brandon also earned a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Regis University. Additionally, they have a certification from LinkedIn in Spring: Framework In Depth and Learning GraphQL.

Some of their coworkers include Lauren Boyer - Front End Engineer, Zachary Conger - Senior DevOps Engineer, and Eric Baker - Senior Engineering Manager. Brandon Ward reports to Jeremy Goldsmith, Head, Engineering.