Cade Ward
Engineering Manager Outcome Owner Platform Engineering
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCade Ward is an engineering leader with 12 years of experience who currently serves as Engineering Manager and Outcome Owner for Platform Engineering at a streaming media company, reporting directly to the CEO. He specializes in building scalable, service-oriented platforms using Elixir/Phoenix, OTP, LiveView, Postgres, Redis, and AWS, powering core capabilities like auth, payments, live chat, and analytics across TV, web, and mobile clients. Cade blends hands-on engineering with product-oriented ownership, preferring simple, highly automated solutions and taking responsibility for his team’s outcomes. His background includes building production infrastructure from scratch, automating CI/CD pipelines, and applying pragmatic full‑stack skills from React and Node to backend systems, which helps him remove roadblocks and enable other teams to move faster. Notably, he transitioned from senior engineer to outcome owner while still contributing technically, reflecting both deep technical curiosity and leadership that focuses on measurable team success.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems, Bachelor's degree, Management Information Systems at Utah State University
Portuguese
Github Skills (102)
realtime10
editor10
electron10
elixir10
typescript10
api-server10
phoenix-framework10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
javascript9
html9
http9
coffeescript9
webpack9
react9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cadebward/leahs-music-site
Sep 2017 - Aug 2025
Leahs website for musical information
Contributions:4 PRs, 30 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years
Angel-Studios/hls
Aug 2022 - Oct 2024
A simple and fast library for parsing HLS manifests.
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 PRs, 33 pushes in 2 years 2 months
parsing
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