Steven Higgs
Staff Engineer at Speechify
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Higgs is a Staff Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-traffic, commercially focused web platforms and APIs across startups and enterprises in the UK. He has led architectural transformations—moving monoliths to microservices and rebuilding data ingestion and processing stacks—to deliver scalable e-commerce and content management systems that routinely handle millions of requests. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, Steven blends hands-on engineering (Node.js, TypeScript, Docker, AWS) with pragmatic leadership from team lead to chief architect roles. His work at companies like OpenTable and VEED.IO emphasizes low-latency API design and continuous delivery practices that improve usability and profitability. Known for instigating cultural change as well as technical rewrites, he pairs system-level thinking with product-focused tradeoffs. Based in England, he brings a background in computer science and a preference for using new technologies to drive measurable business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (164)
javascript10
toggle10
css10
node-library9
build-configuration9
react-i18next9
html9
vagrantfile9
react9
step-functions9
shopify9
typescript9
commonjs9
nodejs9
mongodb9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
stevejhiggs/aws-lambda-typescript
Apr 2017 - Mar 2022
build pipeline for easily building aws lambda functions with typescript
Contributions:2 releases, 36 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years
lambda-functionspipelineserverlessaws-lambdastep-functions
stevejhiggs/catrwall
Jul 2016 - Aug 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 2 months
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