Adam Milligan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAdam Milligan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer and founder with 11+ years of professional experience building and rescuing complex systems for startups and mid-market companies. Based in New York, he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—founding Groundwork to provide affordable senior guidance while mentoring junior developers through real project work and pair programming. He has led practices and ventures at 8th Light, served as CTO at a food-tech startup, and held senior roles at Pivotal Labs, Orchard, Microsoft, and AOL, giving him deep experience across product, platform, and IP-driven environments. Adam specializes in pragmatic, efficient solutions that prioritize maintainability and team growth, often stepping in to stabilize failing projects and processes. A Dartmouth-trained computer scientist with a background that even includes frontline emergency medical work, he brings calm, practical problem-solving to high-pressure technical challenges.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree computer science & biochemistry, Bachelor's degree computer science & biochemistry at Dartmouth College
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Github Skills (131)
rubocop10
testing10
mvc10
ruby10
linter10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
sidekiq10
code-analyzer10
html10
readable10
scenarios10
background-processing10
rails10
tdd10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
buildgroundwork/workstation-setup
Nov 2021 - Jun 2026
Contributions:30 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 7 months
buildgroundwork/vim-config
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
(Mac)Vim configuration
Contributions:298 commits, 135 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 4 months
vimmacvim-configurationdotfilesmacos
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