David Higgins
Lead Software Engineer - AdTech at Telly TV
Arvada, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Higgins is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with over two decades of experience building high-availability, high-traffic web systems, now leading AdTech engineering at Telly TV. He combines hands-on backend work in Python and PHP with frontend skills and a strong emphasis on APIs, reusable packages, and DRY architecture. David has led cross-functional teams at SpotX/Magnite and Care Solace, shaping feature rollouts, CI/CD practices, and production debugging for ad auctions and client services platforms. He’s experienced processing large, varied datasets and creating command-line tools and daemons that streamline operations across complex environments. A pragmatic mentor and communicator, he translates stakeholder requirements into maintainable technical outcomes and has a track record of extracting shared functionality into standalone packages to reduce duplication. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he’s a quick learner who thrives on mastering both new and legacy technologies to solve real-world problems.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Systems, Bachelor of Science Computer Systems at University of Limerick
Github Skills (24)
directions10
linux10
remote-server10
gui-toolkit10
package-control9
python9
on-the-fly8
google-chrome6
ascii6
django6
chrome-extension5
image-processing4
image4
chrome4
chrome-devtools-protocol4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sligodave/dynamic_databases
Jul 2016 - Oct 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 years 3 months
querypythondjangosqlability
sligodave/django-keyvalue
Aug 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:14 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 1 year 2 months
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