Vol. I — Portfolio Edition Est. 2026
Andrew Higgins

Full-Stack Engineer at Moat

Andrew Higgins

Full-Stack Engineer & Team Lead at Moat

Flutter · Go · PostgreSQL · AI Systems

A problem-solver who ships. I build the pipelines, data models, and AI systems behind a facility-intelligence platform — and I lead the team that ships them.

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Portrait of Andrew Higgins
Fig. 1.1 — Andrew Higgins

In This Edition

  1. About Me 01
  2. Projects 02
  3. Experience 03
  4. Get In Touch 04

About Me

Section 01

I'm a full-stack engineer and team lead at Moat, where I work across Flutter, Go, and PostgreSQL to turn the messy physical reality of a building — thousands of pieces of equipment, each with a placard and a story — into data a facilities team can actually plan against. My work runs from onboarding pipelines and enterprise data imports to the AI classification systems behind the platform's capital planning.

Before Moat, I built full-stack tooling and programmed industrial HVAC controllers for BYU's AC Shop — web interfaces over complex SQL databases, and control logic for the systems that keep a campus running. That grounding in real hardware and non-technical users still shapes how I build software.

Prior to my engineering studies, I spent two years in Santiago, Chile as a full-time missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. There I became fluent in Spanish, trained new missionaries and led a team of five peers. This experience honed my leadership, communication, and goal-setting skills in a cross-cultural environment. Whether I'm coaching a swim team, teaching piano, or architecting a cloud application, I thrive on mentoring others and building effective, collaborative teams.

I care most about the unglamorous work that makes a product trustworthy: clean data models, deploys that don't break, and CI that catches the mistake before a customer does.

Technical Skills

Languages

Go Python Java C++ SQL JavaScript HTML/CSS

Frameworks & Libraries

Flutter Flask Django Requests BeautifulSoup Pygame Tkinter Pillow Librosa Numpy

Tools & Platforms

PostgreSQL GitHub Actions (CI/CD) Protobuf/gRPC AWS Git/GitHub VS Code Linux SQL Server KiCad STM32CubeMX Tridium (N4, AX) Delta Enteliweb

Education

Computer Engineering

Brigham Young University

Est. April 2028

Projects

Section 02
No. 01 In Bring-Up
The populated Project Atlas board, showing the STM32 microcontroller, CAN transceivers, and USB-C debug port
Fig. 2.1 — Four-layer control board

Project Atlas

A four-layer STM32 control board built from scratch to replace the electronics controlling BYU's Formula SAE electric race car.

  • Designed the power tree: a fused 12 V input, a synchronous buck down to 5 V, and an LDO to 3.3 V.
  • Six switched high-side output channels across 12 V, 5 V, and 3.3 V — PMOS switches driven by NMOS gate drivers off the STM32's GPIO, with ADC sense on the low-voltage rails.
  • Three independent FDCAN buses over TJA1051 transceivers, plus USB-C debug serial through a CP2102N bridge with ESD protection.
  • Wrote the validation firmware and power-on self-test covering UART, status LEDs, power switching, ADC, spare I/O, and all three CAN buses.
  • Released the full manufacturing package — four-layer gerbers, BOM, and pick-and-place — and set up the Git workflow a three-person team used to collaborate in KiCad.
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KiCad STM32 C++ FDCAN Power Electronics
No. 02
The Music Mood AI application showing generated album art
Fig. 2.2 — Generated album art

Music Mood AI

Generates custom album art by analyzing the mood of a song and prompting an AI image generator.

  • Analyzes audio features like tempo and timbre using Librosa and NumPy.
  • Generates a descriptive "mood" prompt from the analysis.
  • Uses OpenAI's DALL-E API to create a unique album cover.
  • Displays results in a custom GUI built with Tkinter.
Python Librosa NumPy Tkinter Pillow

Experience

Section 03
01

January 2026 – Present

Team Lead, Summer 2026

Full-Stack Engineer & Team Lead

Moat

Moat turns equipment placards into AI-powered asset intelligence — preventative maintenance, warranty readiness, and capital planning for facilities teams.

  • Shipped ~190 merged PRs across Flutter, Go, SQL, and CI since February — roughly 20% of all mainline commits on the engineering team.
  • Built the QR-coded asset onboarding pipeline — bulk pre-printed sticker generation, scan-to-create, and re-provisioning — now used by every live customer, from Utah school districts to a luxury multifamily pilot.
  • Designed a bulk CSV asset import pipeline used to onboard large enterprise customers.
  • Built an AI-powered asset classification and replacement-cost estimation system, matching assets to divisions of construction through dual backfill pipelines. It underpins the platform's capital-planning features for every customer.
  • Hardened multi-tenant data isolation, SSO session lifecycle, and document-integrity guarantees across the platform.
  • Created a migration-ordering CI guard that was adopted as team process, protecting every production deploy.
  • Onboarded and mentored a new engineer to shipping major full-stack features within a month, reviewing 16 of their PRs as team lead.
  • Served as technical point of contact in customer meetings with school district facilities teams.
02

Sept 2025 – April 2026

Electronics & Firmware Lead

BYU Formula SAE Electric

Led a three-person electronics team building Project Atlas, a from-scratch control board to replace the electronics running the team's electric race car. Owned most of the schematic and board design, wrote the validation firmware, and set the version-control process the team used to collaborate on hardware.

03

Summer 2024 – Dec 2025

AC Shop Controls Programmer

Brigham Young University

Engineered a full-stack web application to serve as a user-friendly interface for a complex SQL database, enabling non-technical staff to perform CRUD operations and view change histories.

04

Summer 2024

FSY Counselor

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Mentored and led groups of youth through week-long programs focused on personal development, teamwork, and goal setting.

05

2021 – 2023

Full-Time Volunteer Missionary & District Leader

Santiago, Chile

Led a team of 5 peers, setting strategic goals and conducting weekly performance reviews. Preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Achieved fluency in Spanish while training others in communication and planning.

06

2016 – 2021

Earlier

  • Carpenter

    2020 – 2021

    Luxury Floating Shelves Workshop

    Crafted luxury floating shelves from raw materials, from cutting and finishing through shipping. Trained new team members on fabrication techniques.

  • Head Swim Team Coach & WSI Instructor

    2017 – 2019

    Local Pool

    Led a youth swim team — daily practice curricula, meet coordination, and mentoring swimmers on technique and strategy.

  • Piano Instructor

    2016 – 2020

    Self-Employed

    Ran a small business teaching over 20 students. Built personalized curricula, managed scheduling, and organized recitals.

Section 04

Get In Touch

I'm always open to talking shop — facility intelligence, AI systems, or anything worth building. Whether you have a question or just want to say hi, feel free to reach out.

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