Josh Higgins
HPC Engineer at Millennium
Milton Keynes, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJosh Higgins is an HPC engineer and technology leader with 12 years of experience building resilient compute platforms and bridging specialist domains with IT. He has progressed from academia to industry, earning a PhD in High Performance Computing and leading HPC teams at Red Bull Racing before joining Millennium. Josh combines hands-on systems engineering with platform strategy—shaping high-impact teams while delivering production-grade infrastructure for performance-critical workloads. He contributes to open-source front-end work on the Xpra HTML5 client, improving usability for remote X11 application display. Based in Milton Keynes, he blends software, infrastructure and research backgrounds to solve complex scaling and usability problems across heterogeneous environments. His uncommon mix of music-technology software training and deep HPC research informs a pragmatic, user-focused approach to platform design.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, High Performance Computing, PhD, High Performance Computing at The University of Huddersfield
English
Github Skills (6)
html10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
websocket9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Xpra-org/xpra
Aug 2014 - Dec 2015
Persistent remote applications for X11; screen sharing for X11, MacOS and MSWindows.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:122 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Josh primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Xpra HTML5 client. Their work included adding and improving HTML5-based windowing components, implementing features like window maximization and clipboard integration, and optimizing the drawing process. These changes enhanced the user interface and improved the client's functionality for remote application display and interaction. The commits also include fixes for menu elements, which suggests a focus on usability.
remote-desktopwindowsx11linuxscreen-sharing
connor557/docker-vdidesktop
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR in 2 years 1 month
instancesubuntu-desktopxfcelinuxdocker
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