James Higgins
Software Engineering Manager at Nike
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Higgins is a software engineering manager based in Portland, Oregon, with nine years of experience bridging technical execution and business needs. He has led distributed teams across integrations, data pipelines, and cloud-managed services—most recently stepping into an engineering manager role at Nike after senior management positions at Zonar Systems. James is fluent in Python and cloud-native architectures (notably Google Cloud managed services) and has hands-on experience migrating platforms between clouds and integrating diverse device ecosystems. His background in finance and early career operations gives him a practical, metrics-driven approach to team leadership and delivery. Known for building cross-functional collaboration with remote teams, he focuses on turning complex data ingestion challenges into reliable, customer-facing capabilities.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BS) Business Administration at University of OregonStudent, Student at Epicodus
Github Skills (2)
database2
spring-boot2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jamesmilanhiggins/Google-Flights
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:60 commits, 49 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
jamesmilanhiggins/pig
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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