Max Millington
Engineering Manager at Phantom
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMax Millington is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling front-end teams and products across fintech, streaming, and web3. He has led architecture and product roadmaps at companies like Osmosis Labs and Coinbase, shipping features from one-click trading and mobile apps to payment systems that drove meaningful revenue uplift. Max balances hands-on engineering with people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and setting KPIs while introducing operational practices like on-call rotations for 24/7 reliability. He’s comfortable making cross-functional tradeoffs, negotiating third-party contracts, and driving GDPR compliance and technical strategy at company scale. A former Netflix and PayPal engineer, he brings a practical mix of product sense and technical rigor informed by projects that span NLP-driven automation to blockchain donation tracking. Trained in philosophy at Oxford, he pairs analytical curiosity with a knack for turning complex requirements into predictable, maintainable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Liberal Arts and Sciences at Thomas Aquinas CollegeMaster's degree Philosophy, Master's degree Philosophy at University of Oxford
greek, ancient, Latin
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Github Skills (88)
cosmos10
declarative10
javascript10
tidy10
trpc10
mobx10
osmosis10
typescript10
tailwindcss10
nodejs10
zone10
nextjs10
user-interface10
redux10
flux-architecture10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MaxMillington/meal-finder
Sep 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 68 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 10 months
MaxMillington/the_pivot
Aug 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:75 PRs, 132 pushes, 80 branches in 1 month
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