# Chase Ward

> Chase Ward is a San Diego-based software engineer whose public career is defined by early-stage building: engineer number three at Calm, an early engineer at CloudKitchens, and a founding engineer at Tiptop. His work sits behind products that turn ambitious consumer ideas into usable systems, most recently Tiptop's trade-in-at-checkout service.

- **Role:** Founding Engineer at Tiptop
- **Organizations:** Tiptop, Calm, CloudKitchens, Winning With Chase LLC
- **Education:** University of California, Santa Barbara
- **Known for:** Served as engineer number three at Calm, according to his LinkedIn profile., Worked as an early engineer at CloudKitchens., Became a founding engineer at Tiptop.

## Career timeline

- **2012** — Created the GitHub account he still uses under the handle winningwithchase.
- **2012-2013** — Attended the University of California, Santa Barbara; the public record does not state a degree.
- **Before 2020** — Worked as an early engineer at CloudKitchens, according to his professional profiles.
- **2020** — While a staff software engineer at Calm, introduced a moonlight project called Custom Uptime and plans for an engineering and business blog on Indie Hackers.
- **2020s** — Describes his Calm tenure as engineer number three.
- **Date not public** — Became a founding engineer at Tiptop. The company separately announced a $23 million Series A in May 2022.
- **2024** — Tiptop launched its integrated trade-in service, offering instant checkout credit across a catalog of more than 50,000 products.
- **2025** — Winning With Chase LLC publicly offered fixed-scope web, mobile and complex software-development packages.

## Achievements

- Served as engineer number three at Calm, according to his LinkedIn profile.
- Worked as an early engineer at CloudKitchens.
- Became a founding engineer at Tiptop.
- Helped build within Tiptop as it brought trade-in credit into e-commerce checkout across a catalog of more than 50,000 products.
- Founded Winning With Chase, a technical blog and later a product-development studio.

## Latest updates

- **2025** — Winning With Chase LLC listed web, mobile and complex product-development packages on its public website.
- **2024-07** — Tiptop publicly launched its trade-in-at-checkout service with instant credit for more than 50,000 catalog items.
- **2022-05** — Tiptop raised a $23 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz; Ward is publicly identified as one of the company's founding engineers.

## Links

- Website: https://winningwithchase.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/winningwithchase
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/winwithchase
- GitHub: https://github.com/winningwithchase

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Last updated: 2026-09-27