Summary
Allison Higginbotham is a Senior Platform Engineer with 11 years of full-stack experience building reliable, production-ready systems across Java, Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, and React. She blends meticulous attention to detail and a passion for organization with strong communication skills and a focus on inclusive collaboration. Her background spans enterprise search and high-throughput Java services to healthcare-facing mobile maintenance apps, showing both depth in backend architecture and practical front-end delivery. Notably, she has applied research-grade image processing early in her career and continues to favor TDD and cross-functional teamwork to keep projects on track. Based in the Nashville area, Allison is driven by curiosity and continuous learning, recently stepping into platform engineering to scale systems and improve developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.98, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Mathematics and Computer Science, 3.98 at Maryville College
Front-end web developement & Back-end web development, Front-end web developement & Back-end web development at Nashville Software School
Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering, Master of Science (MS), Computer Engineering at University of Tennessee, Knoxville