Stephanie Mills
CEO & Founder at CodeGem
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolStephanie Mills is a founder and engineering leader with a decade of experience building and scaling backend systems and developer-facing tooling. As CEO and Founder of CodeGem and a 2020 Thiel Fellow, she blends product-led management intelligence with hands-on engineering to surface collaboration, engagement, and productivity signals for software teams. Her background includes security and systems work at Uber and Apple, where she designed Go services, automated schema generation, and modernized legacy functionality into microservices. Comfortable across the stack—Go, Node.js, Kafka, PostgreSQL, and React—she pairs technical depth with operational rigor and a knack for turning complex workflows into automated, measurable processes. Based in Toronto and trained in Management Engineering at the University of Waterloo, she brings both analytical systems thinking and startup grit to founder-led product development.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Management Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Management Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (13)
datasets8
open-datasets7
chrome-extension3
refactor2
code-generator2
elastic-common-schema2
code-generation2
go1
frontend1
apollo1
react1
dbt1
cli1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
StephanieJoyMills/code-gem-test
Mar 2019 - Mar 2025
Test Repo for Code Gem Git App
Contributions:7 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 branches in 6 years 1 month
git-apptest-repotestingrubygem
StephanieJoyMills/Store-API
Apr 2019 - Mar 2025
Simple store API build using Node.
Contributions:8 PRs, 1 push, 4 branches in 6 years
apiexpressnodejsstore-apinode
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