Tom Ball is a retired software engineer with extensive experience in Java core, middleware, and developer tools research and development. Currently self-employed, Ball has worked at Google since 2011, where they developed J2ObjC, an open-source Java to Objective-C translation tool. Their past roles include positions as Staff Engineer at Convergent Technologies and EO, Inc., along with a distinguished engineer role at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Ball’s career reflects a commitment to performance tuning and language metamodeling within software engineering.
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