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Hello, I’m Ted Ward, an architect of high-integrity digital foundations and AI substrates. I survey projects to reveal invisible risks—such as vendor lock-in or unobservable logic—before building a stable, model-agnostic substrate. I specialise in creating Nervous Systems that enable secure, enterprise-scale AI collaboration, applying civil-engineering rigour to software where structural failure is not an option. In practice, I lead end-to-end platform design and execution, from technical strategy and multi-repo infrastructure to hands-on development and stakeholder engagement. I value clarity, traceability, and regulatory-aligned telemetry, and I’m passionate about delivering resilient systems that scale with business needs.…Hello, I’m Ted Ward, an architect of high-integrity digital foundations and AI substrates. I survey projects to reveal invisible risks—such as vendor lock-in or unobservable logic—before building a stable, model-agnostic substrate. I specialise in creating Nervous Systems that enable secure, enterprise-scale AI collaboration, applying civil-engineering rigour to software where structural failure is not an option. In practice, I lead end-to-end platform design and execution, from technical strategy and multi-repo infrastructure to hands-on development and stakeholder engagement. I value clarity, traceability, and regulatory-aligned telemetry, and I’m passionate about delivering resilient systems that scale with business needs.

Ted Ward

Architect, AI Engineer, Full Stack Developer, +5

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Hello, I’m Ted Ward, an architect of high-integrity digital foundations and AI substrates. I survey projects to reveal invisible risks—such as vendor lock-in or unobservable logic—before building a stable, model-agnostic substrate. I specialise in creating Nervous Systems that enable secure, enterprise-scale AI collaboration, applying civil-engineering rigour to software where structural failure is not an option. In practice, I lead end-to-end platform design and execution, from technical strategy and multi-repo infrastructure to hands-on development and stakeholder engagement. I value clarity, traceability, and regulatory-aligned telemetry, and I’m passionate about delivering resilient systems that scale with business needs.…Hello, I’m Ted Ward, an architect of high-integrity digital foundations and AI substrates. I survey projects to reveal invisible risks—such as vendor lock-in or unobservable logic—before building a stable, model-agnostic substrate. I specialise in creating Nervous Systems that enable secure, enterprise-scale AI collaboration, applying civil-engineering rigour to software where structural failure is not an option. In practice, I lead end-to-end platform design and execution, from technical strategy and multi-repo infrastructure to hands-on development and stakeholder engagement. I value clarity, traceability, and regulatory-aligned telemetry, and I’m passionate about delivering resilient systems that scale with business needs.

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Hello, I’m Ted Ward, an architect of high-integrity digital foundations and AI substrates. I survey projects to reveal invisible risks—such as vendor lock-in or unobservable logic—before building a stable, model-agnostic substrate. I specialise in creating Nervous Systems that enable secure, enterprise-scale AI collaboration, applying civil-engineering rigour to software where structural failure is not an option.

In practice, I lead end-to-end platform design and execution, from technical strategy and multi-repo infrastructure to hands-on development and stakeholder engagement. I value clarity, traceability, and regulatory-aligned telemetry, and I’m passionate about delivering resilient systems that scale with business needs.

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Work Experience

Founding Architect and Developer at OpenSwarm (Decentralised AI Framework)

January 1, 2025 - Present

Security by Design: Architected the substrate specifically to mitigate prompt injection and eliminate rogue agent requests through a strictly scoped, logic agnostic handshake protocol. Instantaneous Velocity: Enabled production-ready agents in minutes; each new agent inherits the full logging, traceability, and audibility of the core framework. Neutral Bus Architecture: Built on a neutral message bus to reduce integration complexity; agents connect to the bus once rather than to each other, reducing complexity from O(N^2) to O(N). Strategic Compliance: Telemetry by Design ensures every agent action is authenticated and auditable via Datadog, providing a regulatory-grade audit trail.

Founder and Lead Architect at Vyzo (AI Video MVP)

January 1, 2025 - Present

Feedback Driven Substrate: Engineered an advanced user feedback loop utilising 'pass through prompts' for instant validation of AI-generated video edits. Data Flywheel Construction: Designed to capture validation data points as high-quality training data to create a proprietary data moat for continuous model fine-tuning. Media Intelligence: Built a high-velocity platform for AI-driven video editing and clip generation, managing complex temporal logic and asset orchestration. Distributed Processing: Backend capable of handling high concurrency video rendering and AI inference tasks.

Full Stack Systems Engineer at finova

August 1, 2024 - Present

Substrate Engineering: Architecting digital solutions for the lending sector MSO product, focusing on critical backend pipelines. AI Assisted Handover (RAG): Built a Retrieval Augmented Generation training system indexing codebase architecture to guide new engineers through tasks, elevating models to a 'Senior Developer' mentor. Infrastructure as Code: Utilising Terraform and AWS to maintain high availability environments and CI/CD pipelines. High-Integrity Operations: Ensured full code coverage, guaranteed uptime per contractual obligations, and rapid incident management. Complex Multi-Repository Development: Base lender style with variations for banks. Enterprise-Scale Platform Ownership: Managed the full lifecycle of a digital mortgage platform with stakeholders. Advanced Design System Architecture: A design system with lender selector and a 'playground' for building pages. Autonomy and Stakeholder Management: Led the end-to-end design system from scratch with release deadlines.

Full Stack Systems Engineer at IRESS (UK)

July 1, 2023 - September 1, 2024

System Integrity: Developed remortgage and new purchase journeys for major lenders; Continuous Delivery: maintained CI/CD for live applications.

Lead Systems Engineer (Enterprise Literacy Phase) at TiiQu Network

February 1, 2023 - May 1, 2023

Strategic Pivot: Transitioned into this Lead role to master enterprise operational rhythms (Jira, Confluence, Agile/Scrum). Process Engineering: Created training and documentation for new team members that reduced onboarding time by 80%. CEO Collaboration: Bi-weekly calls with the CEO to discuss project trajectory and service trade-offs. Team Lead: As lead frontend engineer I was involved in creating and allocating work throughout the team; organising resources, standups, refinement and discovery sessions; managing sprints and backlogs to meet deadlines and KPIs.

Systems Architect and Full Stack Owner at Self Employed and StationX

January 1, 1999 - July 1, 2023

The "Final Line" Mentality: Acted as the sole "Architect of Record" for hundreds of small businesses, where a system failure was a direct threat to their livelihood. 24/7 Radical Ownership: Managed every variable of the stack, from physical hardware and custom Python/C++ logic to full CRUD website redesigns. Deep Tech Evolution: Migrated legacy tech (PHP/ASP) to modern cloud systems (AWS/GCP) while maintaining 100% data integrity.

Founding Architect and Developer at OpenSwarm

January 1, 2025 - Present

Security by Design: Architected the substrate to mitigate prompt injection and rogue agent requests via a strictly scoped, logic-agnostic handshake. Instantaneous Velocity: enabled production-ready agents in minutes with full logging, traceability, and audibility. Neutral Bus Architecture: implemented a neutral message bus to reduce integration complexity from O(N^2) to O(N). Strategic Compliance: telemetry-by-design ensures every action is authenticated and auditable via Datadog.

Founder and Lead Architect at Vyzo

January 1, 2025 - Present

Feedback Driven Substrate: built a pass-through prompt feedback loop for instant user validation of AI-generated video edits. Data Flywheel: designed to capture validation data as high-quality training sets for continual model improvement. Media Intelligence: created a high-velocity platform for AI-driven video editing and clip generation with complex temporal logic. Distributed Processing: backend capable of high concurrency video rendering and AI inference tasks.