Thomas Ball
Senior Software Engineer I at Hazelcast
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Ball is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native systems and platform tooling across fintech, data, and research environments. He combines strong backend expertise in Kotlin and Java with hands-on work on GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform, and has practical experience with Rust, Kafka, gRPC and observability stacks like Datadog. Comfortable in both roadmap-driven agile teams and open-ended research settings, he also mentors engineers and conducts interviews in his current role. Based in London with an MMath from the University of Warwick, he has a track record of moving prototypes into production and prefers pragmatic, well-instrumented solutions that scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MMath Mathematics, MMath Mathematics at University of Warwick
Github Skills (82)
extensible10
stream10
dynamodb10
lambda10
lichess10
scalable10
aws-lambda10
build-system10
chess10
bazel10
mongodb10
functional-programming10
chess-engine10
docker-compose9
intellij-plugin9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
th0masb/misc
Feb 2018 - Jan 2021
Contributions:82 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
th0masb/jflow
Feb 2019 - Oct 2019
Enhanced Java iterators
Contributions:8 releases, 296 commits, 1 PR in 8 months
javaiteratorsstream
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