Stephen Ball
Engineering Manager at LendInvest
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarStephen Ball is an experienced engineering manager based in London with 12 years of hands-on software and leadership experience, currently leading engineering at LendInvest. He combines full‑stack development chops with delivery focus, having contributed notable CI tooling enhancements to open-source PHP projects like PHP Censor and PHPCI. Stephen’s work spans backend and frontend improvements—adding build-status plugins, linting support, and robust error handling—showing a pragmatic approach to developer experience and continuous integration. He excels at translating operational pain points into durable engineering solutions and mentoring teams to ship reliable systems. An engineer who still codes, he brings practical CI/CD expertise that helps bridge day-to-day development and production stability.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
cil10
javascript10
php10
continuous-integration10
back-end-development10
phpunit10
testing9
front-end-development8
dockers5
docker5
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dancryer/PHPCI
Jun 2014 - Jan 2017
PHPCI is a free and open source continuous integration tool specifically designed for PHP.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 27 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed to various aspects of the PHPCI project, demonstrating full-stack capabilities. They added a build status plugin for PHPCPD, a tool for detecting copy/paste code, and a plugin for PHPTAL linting. Furthermore, they worked on code related to handling of login status and plugin deployment.
continuous-deploymentcontinuous-testingphpcontinuousphpci
php-censor/php-censor
Jun 2014 - Jan 2017
PHP Censor is an open source self-hosted continuous integration server for PHP projects.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Stephen contributed significantly to the PHP Censor project, focusing on both backend and frontend aspects. They implemented a build status JavaScript plugin for PHPCPD and a new plugin to support PHP TAL linting, demonstrating a focus on extending the CI server's functionality. They also addressed various issues, including fixing a status overwriting message, preventing plugin failures due to undefined variables, parsing variables in plugins, and improving the deployer plugin.
continuous-testingintegration-serverdatabase-testingphp-censortesting
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