Jim Higson
Lead UI Engineer at MarketAxess
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJim Higson is a Lead UI Engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance front-end systems for finance and enterprise applications. He combines hands-on engineering—authoring the 3,000+ star Oboe.js and contributing histogram/charting work to the popular ag-Grid project—with team leadership as a Scrum Alliance-certified ScrumMaster. Jim has repeatedly turned around critical projects and grown monorepos and UI platforms at firms such as Citadel, HSBC, and Barclays, delivering production-grade visualisations and trading interfaces under pressure. He favors TDD, reactive design and highly optimised SVG/animation techniques, and is comfortable spanning full-stack responsibilities from Node.js services to touch/gesture interfaces. Trained at the University of Oxford (postgraduate with distinction), he brings an uncommon blend of academic rigour, open-source influence, and pragmatic product delivery.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Aberystwyth UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Software Engineering at University of Oxford
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Github Skills (22)
data-visualizations10
javascript10
typescript10
data-visualisation10
histogram10
charting10
typescript-types10
data-visualization10
typescripts10
react10
angular9
vue-jsx8
vue8
stream6
fabricjs6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ag-grid/ag-grid
Mar 2020 - Apr 2020
The best JavaScript Data Table for building Enterprise Applications. Supports React / Angular / Vue / Plain JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:27 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 27 days
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the development of the histogram series within the ag-Grid charting library. Their work involved implementing new features, such as different aggregation methods and area plots, and refactoring existing code. The user updated the charting API to include support for the histogram series and integrated this series type with the existing chart creation and configuration methods. Additionally, they added custom tooltip rendering and enhanced documentation for the new functionality.
supports-reactpivotingchartingreact-gridvue
jimhigson/oboe.js-dissertation
Nov 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:22 commits in 6 months
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