# Ben Ward

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/benward

A creative product leader, pursuing projects with social, civic, and/or creative good. Experience building social news products on web and mobile, shipping to an audience of a billion.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Caregentic
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
* FE engineer leading technical design and implementation of new consumer and provider healthcare apps.
* Led technology assessments and selections for new web apps.
* Implemented React/Next application structure for multiple applications with shared components, strong code standards, integrated accessibility testing and design component system.
* Contributor to all parts of platform stack.

### Freelance Software & Product Developer @ Knitware
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
In 2020 I founded Knitware, a product development consultancy. We build good, useful things in a delightful way.

• Designing and building apps for small business clients. Working with clients to solve problems, both customer facing, internal tooling, and product operational.
• Knitware also develops apps of its own: Currently supporting Charm — a powerful Twitter curation tool for iOS.

### Data Privacy Analyst @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Fitbit data protection and privacy. Following Google's acquisition of Fitbit, I worked with Fitbit product, software and legal teams and Google's Privacy Engineering teams to help integrate the companies.

### Data Privacy Analyst @ Fitbit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco

### Product Manager @ Fitbit
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Product for Privacy and Data Protection. Led efforts to ensure product compliance with GDPR and CCPA regulations, and instigate a privacy-by-design design practices across the organization. Led a team of engineers building consumer-facing privacy and data-management tools.

### Product Manager @ Twitter
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Product lead for the Twitter publisher platform. Responsible for Twitter's publisher tools: embedded Tweets, widgets, and native SDKs. Deployed on millions of websites and apps, reaching most of the internet!

• Developed Twitter's “news actions” feature for embedded Tweets, bringing Twitter's knowledge of “what's happening now” with the web.
• Shipped the Twitter Kit SDK to thousands of iOS and Android mobile apps.
• Launched integration of Google AMP on Twitter, increasing reader engagement.
• Led development of a Twitter Cards API, retaining key customers.
• Led my team through major organizational change, from a developer-centric team to consumer product, leading OKR realignment process.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, CA
• Created embedded Tweets; designed and built the technology to syndicate Twitter content across the entire internet.
• Developed the Twitter Cards platform, and led the Twitter Cards web team.
• Redesigned Twitter's OAuth API user experience.
• Wrote high-performance code, embraced bleeding-edge browser technologies, and extended Twitter’s support for web accessibility.

### Web Applications Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Shipped social apps for pioneering location sharing service Fire Eagle.
• Contributed to design of OAuth.
• Built tooling for an Open Social application platform.

### Web Applications Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computation
The University of Manchester


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bnwrd
- Portfolio: https://benward.uk
- Portfolio: https://benward.uk/cv

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Last updated: 2026-04-12