Jesse Riggins is a Senior Software Engineer based in Austin with 12 years of professional experience and a two-decade-plus history of building backend systems and leading engineering teams. He combines hands-on development in Python, Node.js, Ruby, Java and PHP with cloud-native DevOps expertise—primarily on AWS—gained both as a consultant-founder and as an engineer at companies like GitHub, BigCommerce, and Monumental. His background includes product engineering and data architecture roles, giving him a strong sense for shipping reliable billing, pages, and backend services at scale. As president of JR4 Consulting and founder of earlier consultancies, he pairs entrepreneurial instincts with practical delivery across startups and enterprises. Colleagues would note his ability to move between leadership and deep technical contribution, from platform and POS systems to modern web infrastructure. He holds a CS degree from the University of Texas at Austin and prefers solving system-level problems that bridge product and operations.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Computer Science, Bachelor's Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
Contributions:9 PRs, 62 pushes, 10 branches in 9 years 6 months
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Jesse Riggins - Senior Software Engineer at JR4 Consulting, Inc.