Julian Mills
Senior Software Engineer at SurrealDB
Randstad, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolJulian Mills is a senior full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience building web and desktop applications, currently maintaining Surrealist—the graphical management UI for the real-time distributed database SurrealDB. He blends front-end UI design and UX sensibilities with back-end systems work, having contributed significant backend features to the core SurrealDB project and shipped table views, query history, and type integrations in Surrealist. Based in the Randstad, he has led full-stack teams and product-focused development at Yaacomm, pairing hands-on coding with design-minded product decisions. Beyond typical web stacks, he pursues game development and system administration, which informs a practical, detail-oriented approach to accessibility and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Application and media developer Level 4, Application and media developer Level 4 at mboRijnland
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
backend-as-a-service10
databases10
typescript10
ui-design10
mantine10
uid10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
rust10
typescripts10
distributed-database10
react10
database10
graph-database9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
surrealdb/surrealist
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Surrealist is the ultimate way to visually manage your SurrealDB database
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 43 reviews, 272 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Julian primarily contributed to the frontend development of the Surrealist project, focusing on UI design and feature implementation. They worked on initial setup tasks, including defining types and integrating frontend packages. The user further improved the UI design by adding features like the table views, query history features, and other enhancements.
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surrealdb/surrealdb
Sep 2022 - Feb 2025
A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 14 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Julian contributed significantly to the backend functionality of the SurrealDB project. Their work focused on implementing new features, such as adding functions for working with semver strings and allowing the transfer of raw futures over CBOR. They also addressed bugs and improved the display of information within the system. Furthermore, the user added functionality to customize record exporting and refined the structure of function return types.
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