John Higgins
Director Of Engineering - Benetech Labs
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Higgins is a mission-driven engineering leader with 10+ years building and scaling impactful software for non-profits and large SaaS environments. As Director of Engineering at Benetech Labs he evaluated 100+ ideas and shepherded nine prototypes to product, turning three into full-scale platforms spanning ML, accessibility, and social services. He combines hands-on full-stack expertise (Python, TensorFlow, React, AWS) with product strategy, CI/CD, and team-building to deliver secure, scalable systems used by human rights groups, schools, and community providers. Previously at athenahealth he led cost-saving automation and large-scale operational improvements across a 150,000+ user cloud service. Known for coaching cross-functional teams and forging durable partnerships with funders and stakeholders, he excels at moving research-grade ideas into production. An engineer at heart, he brings bioengineering research rigor to product development, blending experimentation with pragmatic deployment.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Fenwick High SchoolBachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Github Skills (44)
cloud-api9
javascript8
math7
typescript7
api6
responsive-design6
twilio-flex6
editor6
twilio5
mathml5
flex5
telephony4
kamailio4
feather-icons4
machine-learning4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mrudof/Martus-KB
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:3 commits in 13 days
benetech/LabsPipeline
Jun 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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