James Ball
Senior Software Engineer at The Farmer's Dog
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Ball is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with a decade of experience building consumer-facing web applications using Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, and React. Currently at The Farmer's Dog, he has progressed from mid-level to senior roles, bringing a full-stack mindset sharpened by prior work as a Full Stack Engineer at Credit Kudos. Trained at App Academy and with a BA in Music (minor in German), James uniquely blends rigorous technical skill with creative thinking—he likens coding to composing music, starting from a small idea and growing it into a polished product. He focuses on crafting delightful user experiences and pragmatic, maintainable systems, and his background in scheduling and administration gives him a knack for operational clarity and cross-team collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts, Music, Minor in German, Bachelor of Arts, Music, Minor in German at Boston CollegeFull-Stack Web Development, Full-Stack Web Development at App Academy
Github Skills (63)
music-streaming9
playing9
music9
rpg8
postgresql7
react-native7
mysql7
cordova7
nodejs7
javascript7
ruby7
oracle7
command-line7
react7
ruby-on-rails7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamesball27/fraudify
Apr 2017 - Mar 2020
Free music streaming app built with Rails and React
Contributions:170 commits, 43 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 11 months
ruby-on-railsreactrailsstreaming-appstreaming
jamesball27/sokoban
May 2017 - Mar 2020
Contributions:44 commits, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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