Pete Higgins
Staff Software Engineer at Western Climate Initiative, Inc.
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Pete Higgins is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 17 years of full‑stack experience building reliable, maintainable web platforms and developer tools. He has led frontend and backend work across startups and enterprises—shipping React/TypeScript frontends, GraphQL APIs, Ruby on Rails services, and some Haskell and Go—while mentoring teams and improving CI and test quality. At Western Climate Initiative he modernized auth, implemented a strangler‑fig migration with feature flags, and created a reusable React component library with Storybook and image‑based visual regression testing. A long‑time contributor to the Ruby ecosystem, his open‑source work includes stabilization and test improvements to notable projects like RSpec, RubyGems, Chef, and WebMock. He’s pragmatic about tech debt and automation, with a knack for making brittle systems more testable and debuggable. Colleagues know him as the organizer and steady hands‑on engineer who quietly fixes warnings, flakiness, and the little annoyances that improve developer velocity.
17 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Boise State University
English
Github Skills (36)
ruby-rails10
wp-api10
oai10
rubygems10
testing10
rspec10
rails10
winapi10
ruby10
package-manager-tool10
aws10
chef-infra10
refinery-cms10
package-manager10
refactoring10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
chef/chef
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Chef Infra, a powerful automation platform that transforms infrastructure into code automating how infrastructure is configured, deployed and managed across any environment, at any scale
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:268 reviews, 363 commits, 124 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Pete's contributions primarily focused on bug fixes and test improvements within the Chef Infra project. They addressed issues related to resource management, particularly with the `gem_package` resource, by defaulting clear_sources to nil and updating logic for clear_sources. Additionally, the user fixed problems with whitespace, and Ruby 2.7 keyword argument warnings, demonstrating a strong grasp of the project's codebase and testing frameworks. The user also switched the rubygems URL to the canonical "https://rubygems.org."
devopsdeploymentansibleinfrastructureinfra
chef/ohai
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 24 commits, 6 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Pete primarily contributed to the Ohai project by fixing bugs and improving the codebase. They addressed missing dependencies, corrected chefstyle violations, and added comments to improve code readability. Furthermore, the user expanded the Windows DMI plugin, refactored code to handle multiple objects, and renamed keys for consistency with other platforms, demonstrating an understanding of cross-platform compatibility. Their work touched upon both Ruby code and integration with Windows-specific APIs, suggesting a full-stack focus.
configurationconfiguration-managementohaiemitsruby
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