Wes Higbee
Owner at Full City Tech Co.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Higbee is an entrepreneurial software engineer and owner with 16 years of experience building custom web and backend solutions from concept through deployment. Based in New York, he runs Full City Tech Co. and has a long history consulting with clients to translate business needs into actionable, testable software while improving processes and developer experience. Technically hands-on, he has implemented ASP.NET Core APIs with XML content negotiation, Swagger documentation, Faker-based test data, and developer tooling like dotnet watch. His background in computer engineering and early roles in network support give him a practical systems mindset that balances reliability with rapid iteration. Known on GitHub as "Reifier," he blends craft-focused engineering with a knack for making development workflows more efficient and enjoyable.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering at University of Nebraska-Lincoln
English
Github Skills (11)
api-rest10
rest-api10
swagger10
asp-net-core10
csharp10
api-design10
restful-api10
dotnet-core10
cli9
dotnet-cli9
cl9
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
g0t4/aspnetcore-generator-api
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Sample ASP.NET Core API that generates random data, has swagger UI too
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 1 PR, 69 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Wes primarily focused on building out the backend functionality of the ASP.NET Core API. They initialized the project with the `dotnet new webapi` command, added XML content negotiation, and integrated Swagger for API documentation. The user also incorporated the Faker.Net library to generate random data and improved the project's development workflow by adding dotnet watch.
swagger-ui
g0t4/course2-docker-windows-gs
Sep 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:117 commits, 51 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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