Catherine Higgins
Full-stack Developer at Eigen Innovations Inc.
New Brunswick, Canada
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Top SchoolCatherine Higgins is a full-stack developer and research-driven Master's candidate in Computer Science specializing in spatial big data and data analytics, with eight years of professional experience bridging academia and industry. She currently develops full-stack solutions at Eigen Innovations while contributing to database systems research that produced a NUMA-aware spatial join study presented at ADMS@VLDB. Her background blends frontend engineering, automated testing and code review with hands-on teaching as a graduate TA for big data courses, giving her strong communication and mentorship skills. Prior roles coordinating e‑government projects honed her policy, stakeholder engagement and GIS mapping experience—an unusual mix for a software engineer. Catherine is comfortable translating research into practical systems and documentation, and she brings a disciplined, research-informed approach to building scalable data-driven applications.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computer Science, Data Science and Spatial Big Data, Masters in Computer Science, Data Science and Spatial Big Data at University of New Brunswick
Github Skills (20)
assign8
team-project8
hierarchical7
h37
coverage5
geospatial5
bins4
points4
geojson4
indexing4
gis4
two-dimensional3
javascript3
topojson2
pseudocode1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
IainCampbellUNB/CS2043_TeamProject
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:80 commits, 30 PRs, 109 pushes in 20 days
team-projectkeepcallsadministratorscoverage
chninja/WebDesigns
Jul 2018 - Jul 2021
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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