Travis Higgins

Based in Manchester

C# / .NET developer • Observability • Chaos Engineering Travis Higgins

C# .NET Software Engineer
First Class MComp Hons in Computer Science
Graduated from Newcastle University

Here are my projects

Here is my CV

About Me

Manchester

I’m a C#/.NET backend software engineer with nearly three years’ experience in financial services. I delivered client-requested features and changes for an investment management platform’s Order Management System. I also built an internal RAG chatbot using Amazon Bedrock to make documentation easier to find, and migrated our monitoring, logging and alerting from Grafana, Prometheus and Loki to Splunk Observability Cloud, with Terraform-managed alerts to detect critical incidents earlier.

I’m especially interested in distributed systems, observability and chaos engineering. I co-authored a short paper titled “Swarm Storm: An Automated Chaos Tool for Docker Swarm Applications”, and presented the accompanying poster at HPDC 2024 in Pisa.

I’m currently looking for my next engineering role in the Manchester area, and I’m open to opportunities both in and outside financial services.

Outside of work, I play the trumpet in a couple of bands and enjoy running, swimming and the gym.

Skills

Languages

C# Java Python JavaScript

Backend

.NET 8 REST APIs gRPC Node.js MQTT Pub-Sub

Databases

SQL Server MongoDB

Platforms & Infrastructure

AWS AWS Lambda Amazon S3 Docker Linux

Observability & Performance

OpenTelemetry Splunk Prometheus Grafana Locust

DevOps Practices

CI/CD Terraform Chaos Engineering

AI Engineering

Amazon Bedrock RAG GitHub Copilot MCP Server

Practices & Tooling

Git Scrum SDLC SOLID OOP TDD NUnit xUnit

Frontend

React HTML CSS

Power Platform

Power BI Power Apps Power Automate

My Work / My Projects

Secure Event Ticketing System

March 2026

A team project where a secure QR code ticketing solution is developed to prevent tickets from being stolen, counterfeited and also resold.

Cloud Computing

December 2022

Both a theoretical and practical module that allowed me to practise using technologies such as Azure, Docker, and Terraform.

Osmotic Computing (IoT)

May 2022

This was the topic of my third-year dissertation. I investigate and compare the effectiveness of different load-balancing algorithms to mitigate the effect of back-pressure.

Mobile Barbering App

March 2022

This was an external project outside of university. I led a small team of developers to build a cross-platform barbering application for a student start-up.

Stubank

2021

A second-year team project where my team and I build a mock banking platform to target students.

Plant it (HCI)

2020

An Adobe XD prototype for a gardening app, so users can track and grow their crops.