Summary
Dan Higgins is a Senior Technical Architect with 11+ years of experience designing enterprise and solutions architectures across insurance, financial services, banking, and travel. He combines hands-on technical depth—having built mobile apps, SOA reference implementations, and integration platforms—with leadership in innovation management and architecture governance at firms like Infosys, NTT DATA, and SunTrust. As an independent consultant and owner of Distributed Computing Solutions, he advises CIOs on emerging technologies and has a track record of turning experimental ideas into practical, production-ready patterns. Known for blending TOGAF-based discipline with pragmatic open-source and cloud integrations, he fosters reuse, operational governance, and developer enablement. Based in Massachusetts, he pairs a 4.0 MSCS (Interactive Intelligence) from Georgia Tech with a knack for translating complex enterprise constraints into clear roadmaps and demonstrable reference implementations.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Computer Science (MS CS), Specialization in Interactive Intelligence, GPA 4.0, Master of Science in Computer Science (MS CS), Specialization in Interactive Intelligence, GPA 4.0 at Georgia Institute of Technology
No Degree (Graduate Level Study), Computer Science, No Degree (Graduate Level Study), Computer Science at Northeastern University
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Assumption College