Kevin Ball
Podcast Host at KBall LLC
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolKevin Ball is a seasoned web developer, engineering leader, and entrepreneur with 15 years of experience building product-focused teams and shipping front-end systems at scale. He has co-founded startups, served as CTO twice, led engineering at ZURB and Mento, and now hosts and panels on prominent engineering podcasts including Software Engineering Daily and JSParty. A prolific open-source contributor to ZURB’s Foundation projects, his work spans build tooling, responsive UI components, and email templating—practical expertise that informs his coaching for engineers transitioning into leadership. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends hands-on front-end craftsmanship with people-first management and a long track record of speaking and writing about web technologies for global audiences.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
1,079reputation
91kreached
36answers
0questions
css
top-5%
sass
top-5%
twitter-bootstrap
top-5%
Github Skills (30)
javascript10
foundation10
css10
responsive-design10
gulp10
rails10
sc10
webpack10
e-mail10
scs10
front-end-development10
webpacker10
html10
asset-management10
ruby-on-rails10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
foundation/foundation-sites
Feb 2016 - Aug 2019
The most advanced responsive front-end framework in the world. Quickly create prototypes and production code for sites that work on any kind of device.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 1318 commits, 831 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Foundation for Sites framework by adding visual tests for responsive menu components. Their work involved creating new HTML files to test various dropdown menu layouts and transitions, along with modifications to the JavaScript files to reflect these changes. The user also made code adjustments to improve the visual appearance and functionality of the responsive menus.
frontend
foundation/foundation-zurb-template
Apr 2016 - Jul 2017
Official ZURB Template for Foundation for Sites.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:42 commits, 15 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily involve updating the build process and front-end assets for the ZURB Foundation template. They made several changes to the `gulpfile.babel.js` file, including removing and reintroducing `uncss`, adjusting the JavaScript compilation process with `webpack`, and modifying the way the watch function works. They also updated the `app.js` file, likely to incorporate the new changes and updated the default starter page.
zurbsiteszurb-templatefoundation
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.