Julian Higman
CTO at MapServe®
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolJulian Higman is a hands-on CTO and senior software engineer with over two decades of experience and 13 years focused on Ruby on Rails, helping organisations from festivals to health-tech and mapping services deliver resilient production systems. He combines leadership and day-to-day development—stabilising deployments, upgrading cloud infrastructure (AWS, Heroku), and implementing CI/CD across teams and codebases. His freelance background means he routinely steps into diverse domains (clinical eConsent, payments, education, and geospatial services) to solve thorny reliability and scaling problems quickly. Based in Nottingham, he favors pragmatic, testable solutions and has a track record of introducing agile and continuous-integration practices that stick. Beyond Rails, his early career in C/C++ and telecoms-informed mapping systems gives him uncommon depth in low-level and geospatial engineering for a modern web CTO.
13 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Electrical and electronic engineering, MEng, Electrical and electronic engineering at University of BathRushcliffe Comprehensive, Nottingham
French
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Github Skills (17)
energy10
rails10
ruby10
ruby-on-rails10
ai9
backend8
runner6
api5
testing5
sublime-text4
sublime4
jsonpath4
test-runner4
php3
retrieval3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
jhigman/sprat
May 2013 - Feb 2017
Contributions:177 commits, 11 PRs, 52 pushes in 3 years 10 months
api-testapitestingtest-runnerrunner
jhigman/nathnac-changes
Feb 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:297 commits, 294 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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