The Internet of Things (IoT) industry is booming–in 2017, the number of connected devices in use worldwide will reach 8.4 billion, outnumbering people, according to a recent Gartner report. By 2020, more than 20.8 billion IoT devices will be in use, Gartner predicts.
As connected homes, cars, and offices become more mainstream, more developers are needed to ensure that devices operate properly and securely.
The term “IoT developer” remains broad, said Greg Gorman, director of the IoT Developer Ecosystem at IBM. “There are a lot of discipline areas that are in play, including security, networking, systems engineering, cloud programming, and hardware device programming,” Gorman said. “It pays to be multilingual so that you can be flexible and play many different roles in the team.”
