Matthew Higgins
Principal Software Crafter at 8th Light
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Higgins is a Principal Software Crafter with 12 years of experience helping teams build maintainable, user-focused software at 8th Light. He blends hands-on technical leadership—acting as a technical lead on distributed systems—with people-first coaching that empowers engineers and shapes technical strategy for stakeholders. His background as a senior front-end developer gives him a strong grasp of responsive UI and client collaboration, while earlier work in full-stack roles and cloud partner support rounds out his systems perspective. Unusually for an engineer, he came to software after graduate work in French literature, which informs his interest in pedagogy, language learning, and clear technical communication. Based in Cincinnati, he enjoys mentoring new developers in Ruby, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and git, and prefers solutions that are as durable and extensible as they are immediately useful.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
full-stack web development, full-stack web development at Dev BootcampBachelor of Arts, French, Bachelor of Arts, French at Miami UniversityFrench Literature, French Literature at California State University-Long BeachFrench Literature, French Literature at Cornell University
French, English
Github Skills (13)
java-server8
duckduckgo7
java5
server5
bunny2
rabbitmq1
web-token1
proxy-authentication1
json1
proxy1
rpc1
authentication1
jwt1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mh120888/java-server
Jul 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:178 commits, 14 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 month
javajava-serverserver
mh120888/personal
Oct 2015 - Oct 2018
Contributions:46 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years
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