Tricia Ball
Software Architect at TED Conferences
Solon, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTricia Ball is a software architect with 11 years of backend experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails and building resilient, well-tested APIs and microservices. She has led technical efforts at TED and scaled content moderation, event-driven systems, and AWS infrastructure at fast-moving companies like Hopin and Toast. Known for mentorship and strengthening team practices, she balances hands-on coding with designing maintainable systems and observability dashboards. Persistent in hunting down tricky bugs and performance issues, she also brings practical security hardening experience and Terraform-driven infrastructure work. Outside of work she volunteers teaching programming and mentoring youth through robotics, reflecting a long-term commitment to growing the next generation of technologists.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Iowa
Github Skills (38)
delayed-job9
sneakers9
rake8
resque8
sinatra8
capistrano8
airbrake7
logger7
macos6
api6
windows6
linux6
hotel-booking6
javascript6
shoryuken5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
tlball/dotfiles
Sep 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 11 months
tlball/FtcRobotController
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
A place for FTC 5062 to store their code
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
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