CV

Timeline

2022 - Present - Senior Software Engineer - Route Reports

  • A small engineering team building a road & rail infrastructure monitoring platform using computer vision & AI.
  • Using technologies such as YOLO, FastAI, Temporal, AWS, Postgres & Nix to build a scalable, reliable and maintainable system capable of processing more than 1 million data points each day.
  • 2021 - 2022 - Staff Software Engineer - Bazaarvoice

  • Technical lead of the Auto Provisioning team, responsible for developing an SMB friendly onboarding experience for customers.
  • Architected and built a fully serverless AWS system with Lambda, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and API Gateway.
  • Focused on developer experience and service observability using Datadog & AWS X-Ray.
  • Led Backstage adoption and contributed to technical strategy across the company.
  • 2020 - 2021 - Senior Software Engineer - Bazaarvoice

  • Technical lead of the Identity and Access Management team. As a team we looked after everything authentication & authorization within the Bazaarvoice platform.
  • Lead the design & development of a Single Sign On (SSO) solution to allow our clients to access the Bazaarvoice platform through a SAML identity provider.
  • Other major features lead included integrating the platform of a recent acquisition, allowing clients to sign in with Bazaarvoice to the Curalate platform.
  • Mentored and coached the other engineers on the team to help them develop their skills and further their careers.
  • Lead an initiative to improve the observability of the teams products to ensure we are monitoring and observing product usage and user activity.
  • 2018 - 2020 - Software Engineer / Associate Software Engineer - Bazaarvoice

  • I started off my time at BV on the moderation team, where I was involved in the development of platforms for content moderation. This involved enabling content to be moderated by both natural language processing (NLP) and human moderation.
  • Working with event driven architecture capable of autoscaling to network content demand.
  • Building a scalable platform to handle user generated content submissions from 1000's of e-commerce sites.
  • Working with a Java backend application and various AWS services including SQS and EC2.
  • 2016 - 2017 - Intern Software Engineer - SAP

  • Making a contribution to the design, development and testing of software, while utilising high-end hardware for storage, networking and compute.
  • Becoming a trusted member of a technical team while working with a range of technologies across the stack including Python, Django and SQL.
  • Supporting with the release of new software and updates to existing applications.
  • 2014 - 2018 - BSc Computing Science - Ulster University

    Technology Experience

    Notable Projects

    Projects that actually got released. There are many more that never made it to production.

    WhereIsThisPhoto.com (2025)

    Driven by a curiosity about LLM capabilities.

    https://www.whereisthisphoto.com/

    Consoom (2020)

    Trying to solve my newsletter readability problem. Product Hunt #4 product of the day.

    https://www.producthunt.com/products/consoom/launches/consoom

    Final year university project (2018)

    Self driving RC car using CV

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4mjHjffr9c&t=1s


    Kyle Higginson
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