Marley Powell
Senior Software Engineer at Exclaimer
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarley Powell is a Senior Software Engineer with six years’ experience building full-stack .NET and TypeScript applications, currently driving engineering at Exclaimer. He has deep hands-on experience in C#, ASP.NET Core, Angular, and microfrontend architectures using NX and Module Federation, and introduced Storybook, Chromatic and Backstage to improve developer experience. Marley contributes to notable open-source work on Backstage—enhancing the azure-devops-backend plugin with bug fixes, refactors and a circular dependency check—demonstrating attention to maintainability and platform robustness. His background includes practical QA and automation skills from early roles, with PowerShell, VBA and SQL automation experience that inform pragmatic testing and reliability practices. A first-class Software Engineering graduate, he combines strong engineering fundamentals with a developer-portal mindset that helps teams scale tooling and delivery. Colleagues would describe him as a practical problem-solver who balances feature delivery with long-term system health.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Digital & Technology Solutions (Software Engineer), First, Bachelor of Science - BS, Digital & Technology Solutions (Software Engineer), First at University of RoehamptonMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at The 6th Form College FarnboroughSoftware Developer Level 4, Distinction, Software Developer Level 4, Distinction at QA Ltd
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
backstage10
typescripts10
backend10
back-end-development10
typescript-types10
dependency-injection9
azure-devops9
azure-devops-server9
developper7
portal7
microservices6
microservices-application6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 109 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Marley primarily contributed to the Backstage platform's backend functionality, focusing on the `azure-devops-backend` plugin. Their work involved fixing bugs related to loading team members and pull requests, ensuring correct dependency loading. Additionally, the user refactored code for improved maintainability and implemented a circular dependency check within the `ServiceRegistry` to enhance the system's robustness. Further contributions involved refactoring existing code and adding new features.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
marleypowell/backstage
Oct 2021 - May 2024
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:8 PRs, 90 pushes, 32 branches in 2 years 7 months
portalsbackbonejsopen-platformportalbackstage
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