Liam Mills-tait
Senior Ⅱ Software Engineer at Runn
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolLiam Mills-tait is a Senior II Software Engineer based in Auckland with over a decade of experience building scalable, maintainable systems across TypeScript, C#, Python, Dart, and Java. He blends hands-on polyglot engineering with strong architectural instincts, having led teams and technical direction at companies like MATTR, Vacasa, and now Runn. Liam has delivered end-to-end products in web, mobile, and decentralized identity domains, and has experience reducing legacy technical debt while mentoring junior engineers. He contributes to notable open-source work, including implementing UUIDv7 support and collection utilities in Deno's standard library, reflecting a taste for precise, standards-driven engineering. A Massey University computer science graduate, he pairs formal CS foundations with practical leadership as a former student council representative and tutor. Colleagues describe him as a thoughtful mentor who enjoys turning complex requirements into robust, user-focused software.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Compu, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Compu at Massey University
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Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
collections10
uuid10
deno10
typescript10
typescripts10
data-structure10
typescript-types10
testing9
javascript9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
denoland/std
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
The Deno Standard Library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 14 PRs, 29 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Liam primarily contributed to the implementation and refinement of UUIDv7 functionality within the Deno standard library. They added generation, validation, and timestamp extraction capabilities for UUIDv7, and integrated the new module. Their contributions included code refactoring, test creation, and documentation updates. They also made additions and modifications to the data structures and collections, focusing on bidirection maps and iterable-based operations.
deno-deploydeno-modulejavascriptstandard-librarydeno
Liam-Tait/std
Sep 2024 - Oct 2024
Contributions:81 pushes, 13 branches in 1 month
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