John Mills
Cofounder & CEO at Seneca
Healdsburg, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Mills is a founder and technology leader with 13 years of experience building mission-driven products that solve urgent problems for underserved communities, most recently as Cofounder & CEO of Watch Duty, a nonprofit delivering real-time wildfire alerts powered by veteran first responders. He has a track record of founding and scaling operational software—cofounding Zenput (used across 40K+ locations) and serving as interim CTO at Pano—blending hands-on engineering with product and operational rigor. John advises startups and investors in the wildfire resilience space, helping translate frontline field needs into autonomous drones, AI, and compliance platforms. He favors pragmatic, human-centered systems where software augments people in high-stakes situations rather than replacing them. Based in Healdsburg, CA, he combines deep emergency response domain expertise with a history of building lean, scalable teams and automation under resource constraints. An engineer at heart, he often embeds himself in operations to surface non-obvious gaps that technology can uniquely address.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Information Systems, BS Computer Information Systems at Champlain College
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Github Skills (34)
amazon-web-services9
amazon-s39
iframe6
macos6
backbonejs6
command-line6
css6
forge6
google-app-engine6
coordinates6
aws-sdk6
django6
geocoder6
geonames6
geolocation5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
johnclarkemills/sherwood_guest
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
zenput/celery-flower-heroku
Jan 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 push, 3 comments in 1 year 10 months
herokucelery-flowerceleryflowersimple-project
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