Hayden Ball
CTO at PlayerData
City of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolHayden Ball is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO based in Edinburgh with 13 years of experience building web platforms and event-focused systems. He co-founded and developed SparkSeat, owning full-stack components from a Rails API to a Backbone box office and a Cordova mobile validator, and now leads engineering at PlayerData. Comfortable switching between hands-on coding, operations and customer-facing roles, he has direct experience running temporary box offices and responding to support and legal/accounting responsibilities as a partner. His background in Computer Science and Electronics from the University of Edinburgh is complemented by long-running practical work as venue and lighting crew at major festivals, which fuels a strong appreciation for reliability under high-pressure, live-event constraints. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions and bridging product and operational needs, he blends startup grit with institutional engineering discipline.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Hons Computer Science and Electronics, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Hons Computer Science and Electronics at The University of EdinburghRepton School
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Github Skills (200)
multithreading10
lte10
testing10
material-ui10
native-module10
rack10
html10
vagrant10
microcontroller10
bitbucket10
filesystem10
data-collection10
expo10
bluetooth-le10
hardware10
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
ball-hayden/ImpView
Mar 2013 - Oct 2013
Contributions:66 commits in 7 months
ball-hayden/Collaborate
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
ruby-on-railsactioncablerailscollaborationruby
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