# Brian Ward

> Backend Software Engineer at Mercari US

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

Currently working as a Backend Software Engineer at Mercari US. Mercari US is the next generation second-hand sales platform with the ultimate goal to remove all friction from selling online and promote a more sustainable circular economy. 

I am working to help build and maintain a suite of GoLang micro-services to serve as the marketing tech infrastructure.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (Backend) @ Mercari US
Jan 2022 – Present | Boston, Massachusetts, United States

### Software Engineer @ Mercari US
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Using agile and CI/CD development practices, contributed to the data engineering, back-end engineering, and machine learning teams at Mercari US.
- Utilizing Airflow and the Google Cloud Platform, designed and developed multiple end-to-end ELT pipelines used to inform business decisions by the user acquisition team.
- Utilizing GCP, helped build and maintain a suite of golang micro-services to serve as the marketing tech infrastructure.

### Intern @ Center for Complex Network Research
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Interning in the Foodome Project at the Center for Complex Network Research, with the ultimate goal to map the global food network from production and processes to metabolism. I am currently building a tool to detect similarities between nodes of food items and processes by implementing a word embedding model.

### Data Analyst (Student) @ MassChallenge
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston
Conducted my capstone project at Mass Challenge, a global non-profit start-up accelerator, focusing on data cleaning and organizing; with the ultimate goal of determining which features might best predict the success of a startup. 
-	Data aggregation, cleaning, and manipulation in R
-	Feature selection & extraction
-	Feature ranking with various filtering methods(e.g. info gain, Gini decrease, FCBF, etc.)

### Strategy and Operations Associate @ IoClothes
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Strategy and Operations Associate at a startup driven to accelerate the collaboration necessary to bring wearable technologies to the next level.  
- Using google analytics, strategized growth opportunities for usership and sales.
- Using LinkedIn, Google AdWords, and other social media platforms, constructed demographics for         content and advertising campaigns. 
- Developed and executed assignments against detailed project plans.

### Carpenter @ Morpheus Company
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Hingham, MA
Carpenter for a high-end woodworking shop, producing custom furniture and cabinetry in a fast paced work environment.
•	Project management under strict deadlines
•	Creative problem solving
•	Team collaboration

### Co-Founder @ StudyDAT (project)
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Boston Area
Worked towards building a collaborative study platform, aiming to help students achieve their goals for the Dental Admission Test (DAT). 
-	Project management.
-	UX/UI design

### Carpenter @ Borghesani Woodworking & Design
Jan 2010 – Jan 2015 | Pembroke, MA
Carpenter in a high-end design company, where I gained experience working with a larger team to produce quality products.
•	Technical problem solving and troubleshooting
•	Attention to detail
•	Mechanical inclination

### Dental Assistant / Office Assistant @ Douglas Treyz DDS
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Goldens Bridge, NY
Worked in a dental office, helping with office organization and operatory preparations.
•	Administration
•	Professional communication
•	Laboratory processes

### Cusomer Service Associate @ REI
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Hingham, MA
Worked at an outdoors retail store, where I contributed to both the customer service and sales departments.
- Customer Service
- Sales experience
- Working with a large team

### private tutor @ self
Jan 2009 – Jan 2012
I was responsible for tutoring students in mostly biology and math classes. I helped with orginizational skills with the students and helped them to understand the material of their classes.


## Education
### Masters Degree in Computer Science
Northeastern University

### Level: Data Analytics (certificate) in Data Science
Northeastern University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Biology
University of Massachusetts Amherst

### Tropical Biology and Ecology
CIEE Tropical Ecology and Biology,  Monteverde, Costa Rica


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianward1428
- Portfolio: https://wardenv.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-11