Summary
Winston Milling is a senior principal software engineer with 11 years of experience designing and delivering high-impact retail systems at The Home Depot, where he advanced from developer intern to senior technical leader. He specializes in full-stack engineering across Ruby, JavaScript, Java, C++/C#, and Objective-C, and has led teams building mission-critical selling and Pro-customer applications that drive millions in weekly revenue. A pragmatic advocate for Agile and XP practices, he helped transition large orgs to modern tooling and CI/CD workflows using Cloud Foundry, Jenkins/Concourse, New Relic, and Splunk. Beyond hands-on coding and architecture, he hires and mentors engineers, runs organization-wide technical learning, and coordinates complex integrations across customer, order, and product systems. Based in West Texas, he balances intensive engineering with maker/hobbyist pursuits and a family-oriented life that keeps his problem-solving practical and grounded.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management Information Systems, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Management Information Systems at University of Alabama