Thomas Mildorf
Staff Engineer at Dropbox
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Mildorf is a Staff Engineer in New York with 11 years of systems and infrastructure experience, currently driving platform and performance improvements at Dropbox. He combines Olympiad-caliber problem solving and an MIT background in biology and mathematics to design pragmatic, high-impact solutions from Python prototypes to SIMD-optimized C++ routines. His work spans service-oriented architecture, containerization, build systems like Bazel, and parallel programming—often favoring simple approaches and reserving complexity for truly hard problems. At Dropbox he’s led cross-functional efforts that modernized developer environments, cut p95 latencies substantially, and migrated monoliths into standard container platforms. Prior to Dropbox he applied scientific-computing rigor at D. E. Shaw Research on molecular dynamics and enhanced-sampling algorithms, contributing to research that underpinned peer-reviewed publications. He’s notable for marrying deep quantitative instincts with a bias for structures that accelerate decision-making and scalable impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Dual bachelor's degrees, Biology and Mathematics, Dual bachelor's degrees, Biology and Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyThomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology
Spanish, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
permission8
service-management6
starlark4
python-requests4
python4
bazel-rules3
python-client3
client-library3
dropbox2
bazel2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tmildorf/grouper
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:42 pushes, 51 branches, 6 comments in 3 months
laravelphpgroup-managementserver-management
dropbox/merou
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Permission management service
Contributions:62 commits, 67 PRs, 28 pushes in 4 months
service-managementpermissionpermission-management
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