Michael Marriott
Principal Innovation Developer
Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolMichael Marriott is a Principal Innovation Developer in Cape Town with a decade of experience turning ambitious ideas into reliable software across cloud, IoT, and enterprise systems. He currently leads innovation at FedGroup, bringing hands-on delivery together with strategic architecture, after a stint as AWS SDE 3 where he sharpened large-scale backend and cloud skills. His freelance work spans building a comprehensive IoT platform (temperature, energy, water, MQTT, Azure IoT Edge) with dashboards, alerting, and mobile apps, as well as end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and centralized logging. He has led complex integrations and multi-technology teams at VoxTelecom and other organisations, and even developed bespoke hardware projects for art installations using Arduino/Raspberry Pi and hundreds of LEDs. A BCom Honours in Information Systems from UNISA anchors his business-minded technical approach, and he values strong team culture and cross-functional collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of South Africa
English, Afrikaans
Stackoverflow
56reputation
3kreached
3answers
2questions
Github Skills (46)
react8
fastled8
android8
reddit8
animation8
react-native7
javascript7
ios7
tamagui7
expo7
typescript7
arduino7
expo-router7
frontend7
azure6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
michaelmarriott/ArdunioFastLED_LightSequences
Mar 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
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.