Adam Mills
Lead Staff Engineer at The Trade Desk
Greater Sydney Area Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolAdam Mills is a hands-on technology leader and Lead Staff Engineer based in Greater Sydney with over 20 years' industry experience and 13 years focused on software delivery across finance, consulting and consumer electronics. He builds and leads global, high-performance teams to design highly scalable, distributed systems with strong user focus, and brings a pragmatic, startup mindset from co-founding KoalaSafe and serving as a founding engineer at CampaignMaster. At The Trade Desk he applies cloud-native and serverless architecture patterns while still contributing code—his open-source work includes stabilizing and extending the popular middy middleware for AWS Lambda. Known for blending software architecture with team-building, he also brings unexpected practical experience outside tech (a year farming Christmas trees) that underscores his hands-on, get-things-done approach.
13 years of coding experience
CourseraStartmate First BelieversGosford High SchoolBachelor of Information Technology, Bachelor of Information Technology at University of Technology, SydneyStartmate
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Github Skills (19)
cors10
javascript10
middleware10
aws-lambda10
nodejs10
testing9
wpf9
aws8
serverless7
linq-to-objects6
masstransit6
sql6
mvvm6
google-workspace6
linq6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
middyjs/middy
May 2018 - Jun 2021
🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adam primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the `middyjs/middy` middleware engine. Their contributions included implementing features such as allowing CORS middleware to specify multiple allowed origins and fixing unhandled error scenarios. Additionally, they made improvements to existing tests, including the addition of new tests to represent edge cases. Furthermore, they addressed code quality issues through linting and other PR fixes.
aws-lambdaserverlessawslambdapowertools
Hatch-Team/middy
May 2018 - Jun 2021
🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda
Contributions:25 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 1 month
node-jsserverlessaws-lambdanodejsstylish
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