Mark Higham
Senior Software Engineer
Salary / Daily rate
London, UK
Freelance
Remote only
Skills
Languages
Work experience
Consultant
Digi2al Ltd
Jan 2023 - Present
3 years 10 months
Remote
Full stack engineer for large public sector client\ • React, Python, Postgresql
Software Engineer
Vaultex UK Ltd
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
5 months
Warrington, UK
Azure DevOps developer building core payment solutions in dotnet core C# Azure functions and SQL Server
Data Engineer
Department for International Trade (DIT)
May 2019 - Sep 2022
3 years 5 months
London, UK
Key member of the data team • Support and enhancement of DIT's data-workspace data platform. Python, React, Postgresql, AWS stack (REDIS, ECS) • Technical support for data scientists' jupyter notebooks • Mentoring fast track and apprentice developers
Technical Lead - Managed Security Services
DXC Technology
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
2 years 1 month
Birchwood, Warrington WA3, UK
Working on contract as a key player in a global engineering team within the managed security services space. I picked up any role required. From PM to Solution Architect to Tech Lead to Developer. Technology stack - C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, REDIS, Jenkins, Docker, Python, Java. ServiceNow
Technical Lead
Ruler Analytics – Measure What Matters
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017
1 year 3 months
Liverpool, UK
Scope. Prioritise. Design. Build. Test. Integrate. Ship. Repeat. The Ruler Analytics platforms are a mixture of Python, PHP, Node and Angular. Data is held in MySql and Elasticsearch and cached with redis. We make extensive use of AWS especially the SNS and SQS technologies All AWS based linux stacks. All continuously integrated using TeamCity, Ansible, Docker and Vagrant
Software Associate
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
May 2015 - Jan 2016
9 months
Warrington, UK
Developing Enterprise Integration platforms using Node, REDIS, RabbitMQ, C# and SQL Server. Working with multiple, globally distributed teams.
Technical Specialist
Swinton Insurance
May 2014 - May 2015
1 year 1 month
Manchester, UK
Design, build and shipping of Enterprise Services that support the management of online insurance documents. BDD and TDD using gherkin, cucumber, specflow, nunit et al. Enterprise micro-services using the usual Microsoft suspects - ASP.NET MVC WebAPI, SQL Server, NHibernate, WCF etc. RabbitMq and MongoDb too. Plus an absolute stack of DevOps and Performance testing using TeamCity and jMeter.
Solutions Architect
slicedbread
Oct 2013 - Apr 2014
7 months
Altrincham, UK
Build and implementation of client CMS sites using Orchard CMS. Working directly with the creative teams, offshore development and test teams and directly with clients. This is the most rewarding and fun that it gets. We hit our deadlines and shipped a quality product
Interim Head of Application Development
A4e
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
2 months
Sheffield, UK
Contract Developer
National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
5 months
Manchester, UK
Design, build, implementation of Intranet and NICE website using Orchard CMS on Microsoft ASP.NET stack. Key liaison between the design and development teams and advocate for Agile UXD
Education
University of Wales, Cardiff
BSc, Economics
1987 - 1990
3 years 2 months
Licenses & certifications
Scrum Master
Issued: May 2025