Summary
John Millner is a Lead Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building resilient backend platforms and mentoring small teams, currently leading engineering work at The Walt Disney Company from Orlando. He blends a hardware-rooted engineering background—having designed power electronics for a CubeSat and led competitive robotics projects—with production software expertise in Java, Go, and Google Cloud. At Disney he architected and sustained a large middleware platform powering 23+ API integrations, creating lightweight libraries and frameworks that prioritized performance and testability over heavier stacks. A pragmatic craftsman, he pairs rigorous SDLC discipline and test automation experience (including WireMock and Splunk-driven diagnostics) with a passion for elegant, maintainable code. His trajectory from embedded systems and robotics captain to cloud platform lead gives him a rare systems-level view that surfaces subtle operational risks early. He aims to deliver clever, well-tested solutions that scale and earn trust across teams.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida