Daniel Ball
Director at Westsmith Ltd
Winchester, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Ball is a seasoned Python and DevOps director with over a decade of experience designing and delivering cloud-native systems for large organisations and government departments. He combines hands-on implementation with architecture and requirements-gathering expertise, recently delivering multiple Python projects on Google Cloud while holding GCP, AWS and Terraform professional certifications. Previously a technical manager and team lead at Roke Manor Research, he has led developer training sessions and driven SRE and DevOps practices at organisations including IBM, Vodafone and the Office for National Statistics. He also contributes front-end improvements to notable open-source projects like the Scratch GUI, demonstrating a willingness to span from UX tweaks to backend cloud architecture. A computer science graduate from Exeter, he runs Westsmith Ltd, blending consultancy agility with enterprise-grade engineering.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BSc Computer Science at University of Exeter
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Github Skills (16)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
react10
ui-design9
interface-design9
user-interface9
code-coverage6
snmp6
apache-spark6
java-native-interface6
diagram6
combobox6
flowchart6
database6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
scratchfoundation/scratch-gui
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 18 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Daniel primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Scratch GUI. Their commits involved modifying CSS to adjust the visual appearance of various components, such as sprite info, the sprite library, and the monitor list. They also removed a UI element and made changes to the layout of components, demonstrating a focus on improving the user interface and experience within the application. The user appears to be working with React and CSS to build and style the GUI.
graphicalscratchuser-interfacegraphical-user-interface
dgnball/scratch-gui
Jan 2018 - May 2019
Graphical User Interface for creating and running Scratch 3.0 projects.
Contributions:19 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 4 months
graphicalscratchuser-interfacegraphical-user-interface
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