Kevin Mills
Principal Engineer at Wells Fargo
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Mills is a Lead Specialty Software Engineer based in Sanger, Texas, with nearly two decades of experience in Python, systems integration, orchestration, and backend automation. He has driven large enterprise improvements—designing CI/CD pipelines, a Python Django template for an Integrated Development Portal, and a CI/CD buildpack for OpenShift—while leading a migration from Anaconda to Miniforge that saved over $2M annually. Kevin blends deep database and Oracle Exadata expertise from earlier roles with modern DevOps and test-driven practices, ensuring at least 80% coverage on key components. He contributes to upstream tooling and build automation—improving Miniforge’s build and test infrastructure and demonstrating strong conda packaging knowledge. Known for persistent problem-solving and cross-team collaboration, he optimizes developer workflows and operational costs without sacrificing security or scalability. Colleagues rely on him to turn complex integration challenges into maintainable, auditable systems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Information Systems, BS, Computer Information Systems at SUNY Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (15)
sh10
automation10
script10
automations10
conda10
bash10
shell10
package-management10
scripting10
build-automation10
cicd10
githubaction-workflow9
github-ci9
linux9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
conda-forge/miniforge
May 2023 - Dec 2025
A conda-forge distribution.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 5 PRs, 23 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on improving the build and testing infrastructure for the Miniforge project. Their contributions include modifying build scripts to use environment variables, downloading micromamba from a custom location, and integrating fallback mechanisms. They also updated testing procedures and channel configurations, along with double-quoting to prevent globbing issues. The user demonstrates a strong understanding of conda package management and build automation principles.
conda-forge
millsks/pyrattler-recipe-autogen
Aug 2025 - Jul 2026
Automatically generates recipe.yaml files for rattler-build directly from your Python project's pyproject.toml, eliminating the need for manual recipe creation.
Contributions:6 releases, 5 reviews, 29 PRs in 10 months
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