Sean Higgins
Senior Software Engineer at Origence
City of Poughkeepsie, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSean Higgins is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience delivering full-stack and mobile solutions, currently building software at Origence. He has led engineering teams, mentored developers, and driven green-field products and high-availability systems—shaving mobile map load times from 27s to 3s and maintaining Java/Oracle services with 99.999% uptime. Comfortable across C#, Java, React Native, TypeScript, NodeJS and SQL variants, he blends legacy modernization with cloud-friendly CI/CD and containerization practices. Sean is pragmatic about ship-ready code and developer onboarding, having created a 100-day autonomous training plan that saved substantial senior engineer hours. Based in Poughkeepsie, NY, he pairs persistent self-directed learning and a positive mindset with a knack for extracting order from poorly documented, brown-field codebases.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Marist CollegeProgramming Certificate Computer Science, Programming Certificate Computer Science at DigiPen Institute of TechnologyAssociate of Computer Science Computer Science, Associate of Computer Science Computer Science at Dutchess Community College
English
Github Skills (8)
azerothcore5
playing4
rpg4
text-based3
design-patterns3
2d-game3
console3
mud3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Sean-RD-Higgins/TextAdventureRpg
Oct 2021 - Apr 2024
Creating a console based text adventure role playing game using design patterns.
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
2d-gamegameazerothcoreconsolerpg
Seansuke/ZeldaJavascript
Feb 2020 - Feb 2024
Originally a school project.
Contributions:11 PRs, 12 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years
school-project
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