Alec Mills
Software Engineer II at Proofpoint
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlec Mills is a Software Engineer II based in Salt Lake City with 8 years of hands-on experience building reliable systems and tooling. He combines a strong academic grounding in data structures and algorithms with a practical interest in programming language theory and implementation, reflected in internships where he worked on internal DSLs and static analysis for security sensors. Alec has improved developer productivity through CI optimization and by helping migrate monoliths to microservice/RPC architectures, and he brings experience mentoring and teaching both in industry and academia. Currently at Proofpoint, he pairs systems-level thinking with a pragmatic focus on performance and maintainability, and his background tutoring and TAing signals an ability to explain complex concepts clearly to diverse audiences.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Utah
Github Skills (56)
openweathermap10
pacman9
javascript9
open-source9
archlinux9
unit-test9
shell8
manjaro8
ubuntu8
servant8
bash8
rails8
linux8
rspec8
keyboard8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
OxSon/.dotfiles
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:110 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 5 years 10 months
OxSon/dotbot-yay
May 2019 - Mar 2022
port of Niklas Heer's dotbot-yaourt plugin for use with yay
Contributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 10 months
dotbotheeryaourtlinuxpacman
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