Elliot Ball
Senior Engineer, Backend at Ometria
East Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolElliot Ball is a Senior Backend Engineer with eight years' experience building resilient Java-based enterprise systems and event-driven services for retail and sports clients. At Ometria he led backend efforts to add geo-targeting, slashed duplicate ingestion counts by over 50%, and engineered a Postgres index cleanup that reclaimed several terabytes of disk—demonstrating both performance-first thinking and operational ownership. He has deep experience with data pipelines, Kafka, S3, and Python, plus hands-on work with Node.js and DynamoDB from projects for major sports brands. Elliot combines pragmatic engineering with a knack for spotting maintainability issues early (for example, proactive index bloat remediation) and enjoys turning messy datasets into reliable, production-ready streams. Based in East Hertfordshire, he pairs strong Java expertise with a proven track record of shipping measurable platform improvements.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
D*D* IT BTEC Extended Diploma Level 3, D*D* IT BTEC Extended Diploma Level 3 at Cirencester CollegeBachelor of Science - BS Computing, Bachelor of Science - BS Computing at University of Plymouth
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Github Skills (19)
text-based10
python-client9
java8
confluent8
avro8
json-schema7
schema7
json7
rest-api7
protobuf6
confluent-cloud6
kafka6
schema-validation6
producer5
librdkafka5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ElliotJBall/FootballManagerSimulator
Mar 2018 - Jul 2020
A text based Football Manager game clone written in Java.
Contributions:103 commits, 6 PRs, 91 pushes in 2 years 4 months
football-manager-gamegame-clonegamefootballmanager-game
ElliotJBall/spring-jpa-seek-pagination
Dec 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 19 days
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