Steven Mills
Software Engineer at Buoyant
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Mills is a software and DevOps engineer with nine years of experience building and operating production systems across media, networking, and identity verification companies. He combines deep Linux, Node.js, C, and Python expertise with hands-on reliability work from roles at The New York Times, Webscale Networks, Prove, and now Buoyant. Steven has focused on platform and database reliability challenges, shipping resilient infrastructure and automations that scale under high traffic and operational complexity. He brings an engineering mindset honed in machine vision early-career work and a Computer Science degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Based in Denver, he’s comfortable bridging low-level systems programming and higher-level platform automation to reduce toil and improve observability. Colleagues would note his knack for turning brittle operational patterns into repeatable, well-documented processes.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
English, Finnish
Github Skills (27)
dedicated9
client-library9
react8
science8
javascript7
google-cloud-platform7
google7
google-cloud-run7
appengine7
python7
node-server6
computer-science6
google-cloud6
gcp6
prerender5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
smills17/discord-to-sql
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:19 commits, 12 pushes in 1 day
smills17/antfarm-engine
Apr 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:2 PRs, 34 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
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