James Ball

I created advanced user workflows for entity resolution, allowing for data deduplication, and cleaned-up and pipelined poor-quality data from disparate sources.

As a Forward Deployed Engineer, my work was client-facing, allowing me to develop my communication skills not just within my team but also externally.

In 2020, I worked as part of a research team, and uncovered new scams and phishing sites including Microsoft support call and gift card scams.

In 2021, I automatically detected and took down telephone scams, spoke to customers about newly discovered covid scams, and worked on sales for web scams to companies worth over $400B.

Regex and Bash were skills that were heavily developed throughout my time at Netcraft; Regex is used all over Netcraft for classifying malicious sites.

My communicative and documenting skills were exercised when writing technical reports about the programs I have been writing and their purpose.

The redevelopment of the company website was my largest project; spanning over multiple months, working with multiple developers, and closely communicating with the marketing department.

I heavily used JavaScript, CSS, and HTML, and worked with multiple web frameworks, including Angular and Vue.

Another large project I undertook was the development of a hardware auditing program that gathered information about staff PCs.

Once the data is gathered, it is sent via JSON to a server program that inserts the data into the company database. This required heavy knowledge of Azure, C#, and .NET Entity Framework.