Mike Grant
Lead Developer at Horwich Farrelly
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMike Grant is a Lead Developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of hands-on experience delivering serverless and integrated enterprise solutions across education and legal sectors. Currently leading development at Horwich Farrelly and founding Scrapezy, he combines architecture-level thinking with day-to-day coding, particularly around third-party vendor integrations and serverless patterns. He has a strong track record modernising legacy systems—rewriting mobile and booking apps, introducing CI/CD and automated UI testing—and has upskilled teams from PHP to C#/.NET. An advocate for practical AI adoption, he is exploring LLMs to streamline LOB workflows and has contributed open-source backend work such as an Alexa/Home Assistant adapter that demonstrates attention to maintenance and long-lived token/state handling. Colleagues describe him as a driven problem solver who favors collaboration and continuous improvement over flashy tech for its own sake.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Beauchamp College
English
Github Skills (6)
alex10
home-assistant10
lex10
python10
api-design9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mike-grant/haaska
Dec 2017 - Jul 2020
Home Assistant Alexa Skill Adapter that supports v3 of the Alexa Smart Home Skill API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 21 PRs, 36 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mike primarily contributed to the Alexa skill adapter's backend logic, specifically for Home Assistant integration. Their commits included refactoring and implementing new features such as Alexa v3 controllers for lights, power, and color temperature. The user also addressed code quality issues by removing whitespace and fixing flake8 errors. Additionally, they updated the code to work with long lived tokens, and state reporting, showcasing a focus on functionality and maintenance.
apiassistanthome-automationadapterhome-assistant
mike-grant/moodle
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:40 pushes, 26 branches in 3 months
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