Anderson Mills
Staff Engineer at Konfuzo Consulting
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnderson Mills is a completionist Staff Engineer in Austin with 12–13 years of experience building and operating production-grade SaaS and cloud-native systems across healthcare, insurance, and DevOps tooling. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps work (Kotlin/Java, Python, TypeScript, serverless, GCP/AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes) with product ownership and cross-departmental leadership, having led high-throughput HIPAA services and data-sync/ETL pipelines. A persistent open-source contributor to Puppet projects like r10k and puppet, he has improved dependency management, caching, and automation around module installation and deployment. Comfortable leading time-disparate teams, he pairs rigorous engineering (PhD-level acoustics background) with practical delivery—recently reactivating and extending an embedded-to-cloud home lighting system as an independent consultant. Colleagues describe him as a positive, enthusiastic communicator who mentors, integrates feedback, and drives projects from prototype to reliable release.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at Clemson UniversityPhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Acoustics, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Acoustics at The University of Texas at AustinMS, Acoustics, MS, Acoustics at Penn State University
French, Esperanto
Github Skills (21)
puppeteer10
puppet10
testing10
metadata10
ruby10
automation10
parsing10
automations10
package-development9
dependency-management9
plugin-development9
configuration-management9
drupal-module9
shell8
logging8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
puppetlabs/r10k
Jan 2015 - Jan 2018
Smarter Puppet deployment
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:171 commits, 166 PRs, 100 pushes in 3 years
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily contributed to the codebase by modifying and adding functionalities related to module metadata parsing and dependency management. Their work involved integrating shared code libraries, updating configuration loading mechanisms, and implementing caching strategies to improve performance. The user also made changes to refine logging and error handling. They also added functionality related to the configuration and build of r10k itself.
puppet
puppetlabs/puppet
Jan 2014 - May 2016
Server automation framework and application
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:41 commits, 21 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Anderson primarily contributed to the automation and testing aspects of the Puppet project. They addressed issues in module installation, specifically related to file permissions. Their work also involved improving spec tests and updating help documentation for the module changes functionality. Furthermore, the user modified test scripts and configurations to align with updated error messages, correct version requirements, and ensure compatibility across different operating systems.
automation-framework
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