Andrew Margetts
Founding Engineer Banter Challenges at Crypto Banter Crypto School
Gauteng, South Africa
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Margetts is a founding engineer and security-focused full-stack leader with 10+ years building scalable, production-grade systems across crypto, IoT, and enterprise software. He has taken platforms from zero to one—most recently architecting Banter Challenges with deep exchange integrations and a modular Vue.js/Laravel/TypeScript stack—while splitting time between hands-on coding and leading engineering and AI teams. Known for blending pragmatic DevOps, penetration testing, and performance-driven middleware rewrites, he has repeatedly delivered large performance improvements (100–300%+) and measurable product gains like doubling conversion through A/B experimentation. He advises green-tech IoT projects on sustainable deployments and has a track record of embedding security as a first-class design principle rather than an afterthought. Based in Gauteng, South Africa, he pairs entrepreneurial strategy and startup consulting with a restless appetite for side projects, mountain biking, and learning.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Certificate IEB, Matric Certificate IEB at St Dunstans HighschoolUniversity of Johannesburg 
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (66)
wallet9
sdk-nodejs9
sdk9
netsuite9
react-native-module9
native-module9
blockchain-platform9
genesis9
blockchain9
portal9
walletconnect8
bootstrap-theme8
chain8
golang8
offline-maps8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NorthroomZA/ixo-webclient
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:46 pushes in 2 months
ixoworld/ixo-assistant
May 2022 - Feb 2025
The ixo AI Assistant
Contributions:2 PRs in 2 years 10 months
assistant
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