Summary
Rob Higgins is a Head of Engineering based in Denver with 11 years of experience building cloud-native systems, AR/3D web experiences, and developer-facing SDKs. He progressed from founding engineering roles at Vertebrae—where he owned infra, CI/CD, event ingestion, and AR product pipelines—to leading AR enterprise web SDK and camera-kit efforts after acquisition by Snap. Known for shipping production-grade pub/sub integrations across multi-cloud environments, Rob blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership and mentorship. He has a track record of turning interactive 3D and AR concepts (360 video, virtual try-on, object viewers) into merchant-facing e-commerce and ad-tech products. Comfortable across full-stack, serverless, and containerized architectures, he excels at bridging product, infra, and data needs to deliver scalable experiences. An early background in recording arts hints at a creative approach to engineering problems and user-facing media.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Recording Arts Technology/Technician, Associate of Arts and Sciences (AAS) Recording Arts Technology/Technician at Full Sail University