John Higgins
Director Of Engineering - Benetech Labs at SafeBeat Rx
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Higgins is a seasoned software engineering leader specializing in delivering social impact at scale. As Director of Engineering at Benetech Labs, he has founded and steered a non-profit R&D program, evaluating 100+ ideas and turning 9 into prototypes and 3 into full-scale products, including platform architecture, teams, QA, CI/CD, and scalable infrastructure. He excels at uniting research, product, and engineering across diverse stakeholders, from federal funders and Google.org to non-profit partners, and is skilled at building cross-functional teams and mentoring engineers. His work spans ML-driven human rights tools, accessible STEM education, and poverty services interoperability, underpinned by full-stack expertise in Python, TensorFlow, React, Java, AWS, and modern CI/CD. Based in Chicago, he also serves as a Technical Advisor at SafeBeat Rx, bringing hands-on leadership to early-stage technical initiatives. He combines a practitioner’s depth in full-stack engineering with strategic roadmapping and a passion for solving pragmatic problems where the rubber meets the road.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Fenwick High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (47)
cloud-api9
webcomponent8
web-component8
javascript8
math7
typescript7
api6
responsive-design6
twilio-flex6
editor6
twilio5
bootstrap-45
mathml5
flex5
telephony4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mrudof/Martus-KB
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 commits in 13 days
benetech/LabsPipeline
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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