James Higginbotham
API Strategist
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Higginbotham is an API Strategist based in Colorado Springs with 11 years of experience architecting, building, and deploying APIs and cloud‑native architectures. He helps organizations balance great API design with product needs, specializing in API governance, automated review processes, and coaching cross‑functional teams to scale reuse using the ADDR design process. James has led programs and training for a Fortune 20 healthcare provider, major banking institutions, insurance carriers, Cisco DevNet, and open banking communities, and he creates self‑paced training to extend impact beyond workshops. With a background as an interim CTO and consulting architect, he pairs hands‑on technical delivery with strategic digital transformation across industries from airlines and manufacturing to SaaS and supply chain. He’s known for making API programs auditable and repeatable while keeping them product‑focused and practical.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
asyncapi10
api-documentation10
api10
specification10
minimum10
portal10
readable10
amqp9
stomp9
reactive9
kafka9
jekyll9
creative-commons9
metasearch8
asynchronous8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
launchany/microservices-sinatra-products
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Microservices example that uses Ruby + Sinatra with Docker support
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
sinatrarailsdockerrubymicroservices
launchany/bump-docs
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 10 months
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