Owen Mills
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOwen Mills is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building customer-facing products across startups and large enterprises, currently working on Microsoft Teams Rooms at Microsoft. He specializes in front-end engineering and UX-focused features, having led layout and BYOD hybrid work on MTR and shipped high-impact components used in public preview. An avid open-source maintainer, Owen contributes to Sortable, improving drag-and-drop UX and cross-browser fallbacks for a widely adopted library. He has a proven track record of designing robust, production-ready code that scales across millions of devices and unblocking CI environments under pressure. Comfortable from prototyping to production, he has also driven visual editor and SDK work at Botmock and security-monitoring applications at VOLT AI. Based in the UK, Owen blends deep hands-on engineering with a passion for polished user experiences and community-driven tooling.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at IU International University of Applied Sciences
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Github Skills (12)
uid10
drag-and-drop10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
draggable9
debugging6
visual-studio-code6
html6
npm6
sortablejs6
jquery6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
SortableJS/Sortable
Nov 2018 - Mar 2022
Reorderable drag-and-drop lists for modern browsers and touch devices. No jQuery or framework required.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 releases, 278 commits, 97 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Owen's commits primarily focus on enhancing the user interface of the "Sortable" library. Their contributions include fixing indentation issues, toggling chosen classes after events are dispatched, and adding a revamp for auto-scrolling functionality, allowing parent elements to also auto-scroll. These changes suggest a focus on improving user experience and the overall functionality of the drag-and-drop interface. Additionally, the user's work touches on the implementation of a fallback mechanism for handling drag-and-drop interactions in browsers lacking native support.
drag-and-dropjquerydragsortablereordering
SortableJS/jquery-sortablejs
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
A jQuery binding for SortableJS
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 4 pushes in 2 years 3 months
jquerysortablejsjquery-pluginsortabledrag-and-drop
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