Ed Ball
Principal Engineer at Logos
Lynden, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolEd Ball is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of professional experience and a long tenure at Logos, blending deep backend C# expertise with pragmatic system design. He specializes in web APIs and database engineering, contributing to notable open-source work like the MySqlConnector for .NET where he improved connection-string handling, date/time behavior, and added important configuration options. Based in Lynden, Washington, he pairs hands-on coding—libraries and APIs for Faithlife and other projects—with a focus on robustness, testing, and performance tuning. A Calvin College computer science graduate, he brings institutional knowledge and steady leadership to complex application and data problems while continuing to ship maintainable, well-tested components.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Calvin College
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mysql10
net10
dotnet10
asp-net10
ado-net10
database-design10
dotnet-core10
ado10
csharp10
async9
databinding9
wpf9
testing8
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Github contributions (5)
mysql-net/MySqlConnector
Mar 2016 - Nov 2021
MySQL Connector for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 25 commits, 14 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ed primarily contributed to the implementation of the MySQL Connector for .NET, focusing on core functionality and database interaction. They implemented and refined the `MySqlConnectionStringBuilder`, enabling users to configure their database connections. Further contributions involved fixing bugs, optimizing code, and adding features such as support for the `Synchronous` and `GuidFormat` connection options, and `DateTimeKind` to improve the handling of dates and times. The user also demonstrated testing skills through implementing new tests.
dotnetmysql-connectormysqlasyncdotnet-core
Faithlife/FaithlifeDataAnnotations
Mar 2021 - Jul 2026
Helpers for working with DataAnnotations from System.ComponentModel.
Contributions:4 PRs, 16 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 4 months
dataannotationshelpers
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