Stephan Ward — Résumé

Technical proficiency

Professional experience

Senior Software Engineer · Whiteville-Coin

Whiteville, NC · Remote

July 2026 – Present

• Built a fully-functional community cryptocurrency platform with a fixed 210,000-coin supply and a live pricing oracle that averages the CoinGecko Top-50 USD prices every 60 seconds via SSE fan-out.
• Implemented a complete brokerage with Stripe checkout sessions, idempotent webhook settlement, and instant sell/withdraw logic priced at the live oracle rate with a 0.5% platform fee — sandbox mode when live keys are absent.
• Delivered a dependency-free SVG real-time chart with 1D/1W/1M/6M/1Y/ALL ranges, hover tooltips, and seeded history, plus an admin console, scrypt-hashed accounts, signed HttpOnly sessions, and a full ledger with P&L tracking.
• Architected a resilient data layer on SQLite with double-entry bookkeeping, atomic JSON writes, and a cloud backup that pushes the DB to a private GitHub repo every 5 minutes and restores at boot.
• Built auth middleware (pageAuth, apiAuth, adminOnly, sameOrigin), pdfkit + nodemailer tax reports (PDF/CSV/JSON), SEO (meta, canonical, OG/Twitter, sitemap, JSON-LD), and WhitevilleCoin.sol with a full compliance framework.

Senior Software Engineer · BestBullion

Whiteville, NC · Remote

Jan 2026 – July 2026

• Built BestBullion (bullionstore.onrender.com), a full-stack precious-metals e-commerce storefront where every product price is computed live as (weight × spot) + published premium, with gold, silver and platinum spot prices refreshing every 2 minutes.
• Implemented the bullion catalog with All Metals / Silver / Gold / Platinum filters and sorting (Featured, Price Low → High / High → Low, Lowest Premium/oz), covering Silver Eagles, Maple Leafs, Philharmonics, junk silver, 10–100 oz bars, Gold Eagles, PAMP Suisse and Platinum Eagles, plus Top Sellers and New Arrivals merchandising.
• Integrated secure checkout via Stripe Checkout with a 3% check/wire discount price, cart with price-lock flow, free account creation, and free discreet fully-insured shipping on orders over $199 with transparent per-ounce premiums and quantity breaks up to 100+ units.
• Built the Sell-To-Us reverse-logistics flow: intake form (name, email, metal type, description & quantity), melt-percentage pricing matrix (.999 silver 95–98%, government-minted silver 94–97%, .9999 gold 96–98%, junk silver 90–95%, platinum 92–96%), firm email quote within one business day, prepaid insured shipping label and check/wire payout on verification.
• Delivered the live spot-prices education hub (premium explainer, central-bank / geopolitical / industrial-demand / dollar-strength drivers) and dealer-comparison content, deployed on Render with responsive UI and SEO.

Senior Software Engineer · National AI for Human

Whiteville, NC · Remote

Jan 2026 – July 2026

• Drafted and executed a formal Affidavit of Organizational Intent and Financial Compliance under the NC Nonprofit Corporation Act (Chapter 55A), aligning an AI-focused nonprofit with IRS Section 501(c)(3) requirements.
• Structured governance and financial controls to prevent private inurement: board-approved compensation policies, documented service agreements, and safeguards separating nonprofit operations from independent engineering income.
• Codified ethical AI development standards within organizational bylaws and sworn statements, reinforcing public-benefit mission alignment and transparent financial stewardship.

Senior Software Engineer · Instant Legal and Business AI Consultancy

Whiteville, NC · Remote

Jan 2026 – July 2026

• Engineered and deployed Instant Legal and Business AI Consultancy on the Render pipeline, ensuring seamless performance and scalability.
• Utilized Python and HTML to develop a dynamic AI-powered legal document generation interface, enabling real-time customization for various business needs.
• Designed and implemented an intuitive form system for users to input business details, select legal document types, and receive AI-generated contracts instantly.
• Optimized frontend performance and responsiveness across desktop and mobile views to enhance user engagement and conversion rates.
• Integrated secure payment processing and user authentication for a seamless and protected transaction experience.
• Ensured compliance with state-specific legal standards by structuring document generation logic to meet diverse jurisdictional requirements.

Senior Full-Stack Developer (Contract) · Insight Global — America’s Job Link Alliance

Kansas, MO · Remote

Mar 2025 – Dec 2025

• Architected and enhanced a scalable AI resume-building platform using Ruby on Rails, designing RESTful APIs and background job processing for dynamic updates, versioning, and real-time rendering.
• Designed and implemented a reusable Notes Card component for structured recruiter notes with PostgreSQL (RDS) persistence.
• Leveraged HAML templating to implement State Attorney General commerce-facing interfaces with WCAG alignment, QA/QC validation, and compliance checks.
• Delivered all contract objectives via GitHub PR governance, sprint reviews, and Ansible-based deployments for zero-defect releases.
• Architected a secure client-managed credential module with AES-256 encryption (MessageEncryptor), RBAC, BCrypt hashing, and TLS transport security.

Senior Frontend Developer (Contract) · MedSys — Baylor Health

Plano, TX · Remote

Mar 2024 – May 2024

• Engineered TypeScript in-person/video appointment tile components for a redesigned web and mobile dashboard with designers.
• Integrated a “Things-To-Do” dashboard handling task arrays for patient appointments through card components.
• Updated hamburger menu navigation items and routes based on show/hide toggles for patient-enrolled programs.
• Leveraged BEM SCSS namespaces and Figma core to scale the design system to the front-end iFrame interface, shipping June 3rd on schedule.

Full-Stack Engineer · Take2IT, Booz Allen Hamilton, Veterans Affairs

Washington, DC · Remote

Nov 2021 – Mar 2023

• Practiced SAFe for the Caseflow Application, lifting development efficiency ~30% and cutting delivery time ~20% via complex query design.
• Designed, developed, and deployed the 2022 priority AMA Board of Appeals split-stream project, improving appeals processing time ~40%.
• Streamlined Caseflow install/build on Windows 11 with Docker SOPs, cutting setup from 1–2 days to ~2 hours.
• Led Tier 4 resolution SOPs for stuck async REST threads, claims data, and privileges — improving resolution time ~50%.
• Optimized Arel/SQL queries, automation, and async jobs with the Optimization team, lifting app performance ~25% and cutting DB response ~30%.
• Partnered on release management with Git-flow merge strategies for conflict-free integration.
• Optimized claim processing under HIPAA controls, processing 10,000+ claims with encryption and data protection protocols.

Full-Stack Engineer · Denver Website and App Technology

Denver, CO

Nov 2011 – Aug 2021

• Coordinated, designed, and developed cross-platform SaaS solutions and hardware through the SDLC, delivering on time and on budget.
• Delivered SaaS platforms across health, banking, mining, oil & gas, real estate, radio, networking, and property management.
• Drafted EULAs defining revocability/transferability while protecting company IP.
• Prepared SOWs, RFIs, RFPs, and contract proposals that won new business.
• Led a Hospital Management System build (PHP/MariaDB/MySQL/Bootstrap on XAMPP) covering records, scheduling, billing, and reporting.
• Shipped healthcare SaaS for patient records, scheduling, billing, and report generation.
• Integrated Google/Apple push notifications and managed Android/iOS app distribution.
• Evaluated business cases and vendors to select strategic partners.
• Reported progress to stakeholders, managing expectations and milestones.
• Architected Hitachi UCP HC + VMware vSAN infrastructure for Comcast binary bit-stream data processing.

Founder & CEO · Propurty (SaaS)

North Carolina

2015 – 2016

• Founded a property-management marketplace app connecting owners with contractors — schedule, negotiate, and accept contract prices end-to-end.
• Integrated Twilio for user messaging, PayPal for global payments, and Google Maps for geo-location; co-updated PayPal’s global country-code API.
• Shipped on iOS and web; secured US trademark (#87248451).

Field Service Representative → Tier III · Halliburton

Multiple US field locations

2012 – 2015

• Consulted on IT drilling-fluid software for ConocoPhillips, XTO Energy, HESS, Occidental and other majors across 17 rigs and 145 drilled wells.
• Monitored costs, quality and safety of drilling-fluid IT operations daily; managed chemical inventory and supply-chain orders.
• Promoted to Tier II (Jun 2013) then Tier III (Aug 2014) for exceptional resolution of field-critical issues.
• Identified software and operational changes for EnerVest saving ≈ $500,000 per well drilled.

Education

Certifications

• Certified Associate Project Management (CAPM®) PMI
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty Udemy Academy
• Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) Udemy Academy
• Certified Project Management uCertify
• CompTIA Project+ CompTIA
• CompTIA A+ CompTIA
• ITIL 4 Foundation AXELOS

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