George Ball
Director, Principal Consultant at J&G Services Ltd
Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarGeorge Ball is a seasoned technical specialist and consultant with over 40 years' experience spanning software development, support, technical writing, training and mentoring, focused on Unix/Linux, low-latency and distributed systems. As Director and Principal Consultant at J&G Services and long-term advisor to firms like Morgan Stanley and Chronicle Software, he blends hands-on development in Scala, Java, Akka and C/C++ with designing documentation pipelines and "docs-as-code" tooling. He has designed and delivered large-scale training programs and specialist courses (including Linux kernel internals and advanced Scala/Akka) and has a track record of improving developer productivity through tooling and platform work. Notable contributions include technical editing for the Java Cookbook (5th ed.) and integrating live, runnable examples into generated documentation for Chronicle. He stays technically curious—familiarising himself with AI and self-training in Rust and Go—while retaining deep practical expertise in low-latency architectures. Based in Scotland, he is valued for translating complex technical topics into clear documentation, teachable courses and production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish
Github Skills (33)
low-latency10
chronicle10
publisher10
csv10
queue10
messaging9
json9
java9
serialization9
garbage9
yaml9
disk9
deserialization9
artemis9
mmap8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
george-ball/IntermediateCPP
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:36 pushes in 1 month
george-ball/HPAdvJava
Jan 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:25 pushes in 3 months
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