Colin Higgins
Open-Source Software Engineer at Scion Software, LLC
Buffalo, New York, United States
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Top SchoolColin Higgins is an open-source software engineer and founder with 13 years of experience building distributed systems, message buses, and scalable web services from his base in Buffalo, NY. Currently at Datadog, he contributes to the dd-trace-dotnet APM client—improving profilers, integrations, and performance—and brings deep expertise in .NET, messaging architectures, and observability. As founder of Scion Software, BuffaloDevs, and local chess organizations, he blends entrepreneurship, community building, and mentorship with hands-on engineering. His background spans consulting and enterprise roles where he architected CQRS/SOA solutions, large-data imports, and test-driven, decoupled systems. Known as an optimist and lifelong learner (and a “tired dad”), he pairs technical rigor with a knack for teaching and scaling developer teams.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Hutchinson Central Technical High SchoolBachelor of Science, Information Technology - Application Software Development, Bachelor of Science, Information Technology - Application Software Development at Alfred State College - SUNY College of TechnologyCampus West
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Github Skills (24)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
DataDog/dd-trace-dotnet
Apr 2019 - Apr 2022
.NET Client Library for Datadog APM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 352 reviews, 423 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Colin primarily contributed to the .NET client library for Datadog APM. The commits showcase the user's work on improving the .NET profiler by adding support for Visual Studio 2019, and implementing integrations and test cases for MongoDB and PostgreSQL. Further contributions involved fixing bugs, performance improvements, and adding new features.
net-librarydotnetprofilingapmtracing
akhigginsyoga/akhigginsyoga.github.io
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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