Summary
Mark Higham is a pragmatic software engineer and data engineer with 12 years of recent experience and over two decades delivering business value across startups and large organisations. Cleared to a high government standard, he specialises in building scalable systems for real-time data processing and has a track record of shipping practical solutions under tight constraints. He has held hands-on and leadership roles from software development manager to technical lead and data engineer, playing instrumental parts in founding-stage successes at Ruler Analytics and Pulse Umbrella. Based in Liverpool, he combines a strong product focus with a “strong opinions, loosely held” mindset that favours getting things done. Outside work he identifies as an “8bit software developer,” hinting at a long-standing, playful curiosity about low-level or retro computing.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
French