Simon Ball

Highly technical dev who enjoys turning chaos in to productivity. JoyDX creator

Hong Kong SAR

About

Passionate about technology, well versed at tackling the digital needs of business at all levels, including team management. Deep understanding of how to implement and guide businesses to work together better to create a product by implementing processes, and, conducting workshops and discoveries. Confident communicating with stakeholders at all levels, objective and disciplined in approach to create lean and maintainable solutions. Backend – Go, TypeScript, PHP, Python Operations – Expert Linux user (Bare-metal or cloud), IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Containers), and automation (Azure DevOps / Github / Gitea / Jenkins) Lifecycle - Agile, Systems Analysis / auditing, resource planning, team management Frontend - MPA / SPA (Vue, React), Hybrid apps (React Native, Flutter), SSG (Hugo, NextJS)

Experience

  • Founder at JoyDX
    Sep 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

    Take all my accumulated skills and experience to help other developers with a tool that helps address the major pain points of the developer experience I came across repeatedly. JoyDX is a CLI / GUI app to make technical onboarding simple and to automated a lot of the daily tasks expected of developers. Tech: Go, TypeScript, Wails, SQLite, Containers,

  • Product Developer / System Architect at Varadise Limited
    May 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Technical and management transformation of a Digital Twin project led company in to a product led company. Responsible for reviewing systems to create long-term roadmap alongside designer and project management and jump-starting development and integrating with different teams whilst supporting existing systems. Tech: Go, TypeScript, React, Kafka, Druid, Redis, Photoprism, Camunda

  • Tech Lead at PALO IT
    May 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Client projects included: Mobile app dev strategy for an international fashion brand, launching HyperLedger blockchain PoC for railroad equipment manufacturer, retirement / recovery refactor for a government portal and, creating a Flutter app toolkit for an international insurance company Internally: Recruitment and mentoring, create tech excellence initiative, coding for the global site, building Hubspot Developer tool, Team chatbot and, reports via Google Data Studio Connectors. Tech: Go, Kotlin, TypeScript, Flutter, Terraform, Ansible, Azure DevOps, AWS, React, Vue

  • Lead Technical Project Manager at Pledgecamp
    Sep 2019 - Nov 2021 · 2 yrs 3 mos

    Established, mentored and, managed Hong Kong Development team, heavily involved in systems architecture and coding. Responsible for development of Frontend, Oracle, Blockchain gateway, tokenbridge and, development of an E2E test framework Tech: Go, TypeScript, Vue, Python, Ethereum / Solidity, Jenkins, Redis, Netlify, AWS

  • Lead Full Stack Developer at Aenco Solutions Limited
    Aug 2018 - Aug 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

    Drove development for creating and deploying a variety of blockchain services for an established medical investment and research firm. Responsible for deploying and managing a private blockchain network along with support services including faucet, explorers, auto-updating release site and, monitoring / recovery services. Tech: Go, PHP, TypeScript, Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, ViaBTC, Kafka, Redis, AWS, Digital Ocean