Simon Ball
Founder at JoyDX
Hong Kong, China
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Ball is a founder and seasoned full-stack engineer with 11 years’ experience building product-led developer tooling and enterprise systems from Hong Kong. He blends hands-on backend expertise in Go, TypeScript, PHP and Python with strong DevOps and IaC skills (Terraform, Ansible, containers) to deliver lean, maintainable solutions and automate developer workflows. As a former tech lead and systems architect he has repeatedly transformed teams and products—helping companies shift from project-driven work to product thinking while running workshops, discoveries and governance. His current venture, JoyDX, applies those lessons to simplify technical onboarding and daily developer tasks via a CLI/GUI built in Go and TypeScript. Comfortable communicating with stakeholders at all levels, he pairs disciplined systems analysis with pragmatic coding, and has a rare combination of classroom teaching experience and deep operational Linux knowledge.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School 3 A Level 11 GCSE, High School 3 A Level 11 GCSE at John Hampden Grammar School(BSc) Multimedia Network and Systems Framework Web Development, (BSc) Multimedia Network and Systems Framework Web Development at Bournemouth University
English
Github Skills (112)
desktop-application10
csv10
bundle9
javascript9
linux9
golang9
angular9
exporter9
windows9
xls9
sonata9
bootstrap9
filesystem9
nextjs9
css9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
symball/docker-quick-stack
Aug 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
symball/docker-images
Oct 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
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