Drew Higginson
Senior Software Engineer at Virgin Media O2
Tameside, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolDrew Higginson is a senior software engineer based in Tameside, UK, with over 13 years of hands-on experience and a broader 18-year background in building scalable web and backend systems. He specialises in JavaScript and TypeScript while also bringing deep competence in PHP, Python, C++ and Java, and has repeatedly delivered resilient, production-grade services across telco, media and enterprise domains. Drew has shifted fluidly between consultancy, product development and entrepreneurship—founding and exiting Drone Authority and running a long-standing freelance consultancy—demonstrating both technical depth and commercial instincts. His career highlights include architecting AWS-backed hotspot and event systems, large-scale data warehouses, and real-time messaging backends at organisations such as TalkTalk, Sky and Virgin Media O2. Colleagues know him for stabilising complex systems, mentoring mid-level engineers, and turning fragmented multi-portal products into consolidated, maintainable platforms.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Glossopdale Community College
Github Skills (177)
python10
gps10
firmware10
automation10
esp3210
home-assistant10
mqtt10
avr10
home-automation10
vendor10
atmel10
garden10
3d-printer10
commercial10
iot10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
drewzh/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:41 commits, 32 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
drewzh/scripts
Sep 2016 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 8 years 6 months
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