James Higginbotham
API Strategist
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarJames Higginbotham is an API strategist and consultant with 11+ years of experience architecting, building, and scaling APIs and cloud-native architectures for enterprises across insurance, banking, healthcare, and SaaS. He helps organizations establish federated API Centers of Enablement, governance, and automated review processes while training thousands of engineers through tailored workshops and self-paced courses. James blends hands-on technical design—covering REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and event-driven patterns like Kafka and WebHooks—with product-minded facilitation to map business capabilities into reusable API roadmaps. He’s coached Fortune 20 and global banking teams, led API initiatives at Cisco DevNet, and serves clients from startup CTO roles to large-scale platform transformations. Notably, he emphasizes repeatable, scalable API design practices (ADDR) and building federated coaching programs so governance scales without stifling product teams.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
asyncapi10
api-documentation10
api10
specification10
minimum10
portal10
readable10
amqp9
stomp9
reactive9
kafka9
jekyll9
creative-commons9
metasearch8
asynchronous8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
launchany/microservices-sinatra-products
Mar 2016 - Jul 2019
Microservices example that uses Ruby + Sinatra with Docker support
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
sinatrarailsdockerrubymicroservices
launchany/bump-docs
May 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 14 branches in 10 months
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