Wes Mills
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWes Mills is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Microsoft with over 8 years of focused experience keeping Office 365 Enterprise Cloud Messaging robust and customer-ready. He blends deep hands-on troubleshooting—born from decades watching Linux and Windows evolve—with scripting and automation to drive uptime, quick incident response, and service improvements. Previously a support escalation engineer, he brings strong customer empathy and proven escalation management for SMB and enterprise environments. Comfortable across FreeBSD, Linux, Windows, virtualization, and cloud tooling, Wes likes to tackle anything with a blinking light or a script. Based in Seattle, he combines an academic foundation in computer science and information systems with a pragmatic “IT firefighter” mentality that quietly prevents crises before customers notice.
8 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Texas Woman's UniversityMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Information Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Information Systems at Tarleton State University
Github Skills (36)
ssh-tunnel10
vpn-client10
microsoft-graph10
vpn-server10
strongswan9
vpn9
microsoft9
wireguard9
security9
ipsec9
ansible9
encryption9
password-manager7
privacy6
broadband6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
HappyKevinm/Luas_Location_Based_PushOver
May 2018 - Apr 2020
Location based pushover notifications using IFTTT
Contributions:2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 10 months
pushoveriftttpushover-notificationsnotificationslocation
wesmi/peering.pudu.be
Feb 2022 - Sep 2023
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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