Robert Mills
Senior Staff Frontend Software Engineer at OpenSpace
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Mills is a Senior Staff Frontend Software Engineer in San Francisco with 12 years of full-stack experience building polished, pixel-perfect interfaces and robust backend services. He combines hands-on frontend expertise with React/Redux and modern CSS with practical backend work in Node, Mongo, Flask, Django and automated deployments, reflecting a self-taught, pragmatic approach to engineering. At OpenSpace he leads frontend efforts while previously helping early-stage BuildingConnected containerize infrastructure and ship cross-stack features. Robert is also an active contributor to the octokit.net project, implementing and testing the Gist API for a widely used GitHub client library—evidence of his attention to API design and test-driven delivery. A former Navy petty officer and language student in linguistics, he brings discipline, systems thinking, and clear communication to complex engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Linguistics at San Francisco State University
Spanish, Italian, Japanese
Github Skills (10)
net10
asp-net10
octokit-net10
dotnet10
api10
csharp10
apidoc10
dotnet-core10
sdk9
testing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
octokit/octokit.net
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
A GitHub API client library for .NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Robert focused on implementing and completing the Gist API for the .NET client library. Their contributions included creating functionality to create, delete, fork, star, unstar, and edit gists. They also implemented methods to list gists, including public, starred, and those for a specific user. Furthermore, the user added tests to validate the implemented Gist API features.
api-clientapidotnetoctokit-netclient-library
rgmills/chargify-dot-net
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:2 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 9 months
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