Geraint Ballinger
Astro Pi Developer & Deployment Engineer at Raspberry Pi Foundation
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolGeraint Ballinger is a backend engineer with nine years’ experience building reliable, maintainable systems, currently working as Astro Pi Developer & Deployment Engineer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. He previously helped replatform royalty processing at Kobalt Music from monolithic PL/SQL into a streaming, Kafka-based architecture, showing strong skills in data pipelines and real-time systems. Comfortable across Python, Java and embedded/IoT contexts, he’s an active contributor to the Sense HAT Python library where he improved sensor handling, docs and usability. Trained at Cambridge and UCL, he brings a mix of rigorous academic grounding and practical engineering discipline. Interested in functional programming and reinforcement learning, he pairs analytical curiosity with clear communication to deliver pragmatic solutions. Colleagues describe him as someone who thinks about long-term maintainability as much as getting features into production.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Secondary School, Secondary School at Chetham's School of MusicBachelor of Arts - BA, Bachelor of Arts - BA at University of CambridgeSecondary School, Secondary School at Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg PlasmawrUniversity College London
Welsh, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
embedded10
lib10
sys10
python10
error-handling9
documentation8
keras6
pandas6
vim6
linux6
lstm6
visual-studio6
haskell6
induction6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
astro-pi/python-sense-hat
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Source code for Sense HAT Python library
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 2 reviews, 18 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Geraint primarily contributed to the `sense-hat` Python library, making improvements to the color sensor functionality and the overall library structure. Their work involved fixing warnings, updating documentation, and adding exception handling. Furthermore, the user bumped the minor version of the library and added a brightness alias, reflecting a focus on usability and maintenance.
python-librarypythonsense-hatsensehat
raspberrypilearning/code-for-your-astro-pi-mission-space-lab-experiment
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:24 reviews, 248 commits, 37 PRs in 5 months
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