Alexander Mills
Fractional CTO And Chief Software Engineer at Dancing Dragons
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolAlexander Mills is a product- and production-oriented senior software engineer and fractional CTO with eight years of professional experience building full-stack, platform, and cloud systems across startups, big tech, and government contracts. He blends hands-on engineering (Rust, TypeScript, Python, Gleam and other functional-first languages) with control-theoretic, feedback-loop approaches to platform design—most recently reducing CI/validation latency and shipping a composable Rust SDK adopted across dozens of teams at Cloudflare. Comfortable in roles from Platform and Cloud Engineer to DevOps and Sales Engineering, he specializes in CI/CD, observability, and resilient orchestration for high-concurrency systems. An advocate for statically-typed, functionally-inclined languages and a Gleam evangelist, he pairs deep academic grounding in ORIE with practical production instincts and a private history of working under high security clearance environments. Unafraid to build both product and infra, he’s equally at home optimizing control planes as shipping customer-facing full-stack apps.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS / PhD candidate ORIE - Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, MS / PhD candidate ORIE - Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at The University of Texas at AustinBS Cum Laude Industrial and Systems Engineering, BS Cum Laude Industrial and Systems Engineering at University at BuffaloUniversity of California Santa CruzHigh School Diploma Political Science and Government, High School Diploma Political Science and Government at Woodside Priory School
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cardiacunicorn/canigetcentrelink
Mar 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
cardiacunicorn/dm-tools
Nov 2022 - May 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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