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Alexander Mills

Senior Software Engineer / Platform Engineer / Devops / DevSecOps

United States
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Updated 6 months ago

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Years Experience

7

Roles

36

Skills

2

Education

About

Product and Production oriented Senior Software Engineer. Experience in full-stack apps in various tech stacks and environments with lots of startup experience, big tech and in government contracting. Prime of career :) 0.1% on StackOverflow Best job fit: Platform Engineer, Cloud Engineer (SDKs, tooling, production) Solid job fit: DevOps, Full-Stack Reach jobs: SRE, Developer Advocate, Dev Evangelist, Sales Engineer, Software Architect "Alex, do you know Python?" - I was in academia and worked in devops for years, so the answer is yes :) Senior software engineer here, heavy with full-stack, ops, and platform engineering experience. And have startup experience! Have worked in b2b, b2c, b2gov and b2self. Lately been doing a lot of work in CI/CD, Observability and some LLM applications, but I am also big on full-stack development. While I fear for humanity’s future 👀, I believe that better IT systems can make a huge positive difference in the world. I have an eye for optimized and fault-tolerant software. My site: https://the1mills.github.io Gleamlang advocate! Gleam is hopefully the future of backend development. Any company working with OCaml/ReasonML, Gleam-lang, Rust, Erlang / Elixir, Haskell, F# - having worked with many software languages and environments, prefer working with structurally-typed, statically-typed, and functionally-inclined languages. TypeScript is pretty cool too 😎😎. Note: While primarily a software engineer, I do have experience in Sales Engineering in startup environments.

Experience (7 roles)

Dancing Dragons · Freelance

Fractional CTO and Chief Software Engineer

Current

Dancing Dragons · Freelance

Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr

Hands-on engineer; managing projects and people; AWS, GCP, Fly.io and Next.js on Vercel

ORESoftware · Full-time

Solutions Engineer, Sales Engineer

Current

ORESoftware · Full-time

Jun 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 5 mos·Austin, Texas, United States · Remote

Sales Engineer and Customer Support Engineer for web tools on Chrome Web Store. Doing full-stack development for several apps in the Chrome Web Store, Firebase, Cloudflare Workers and Supabase on backend.

VibeIRL · Full-time

CTO / Software Engineer

VibeIRL · Full-time

Jul 2023 - Jul 2024 · 1 yr 1 mo·New York, United States · Remote

Startup in social media, advocating for brick-n-mortar local business

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Education (2)

The University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin

University at Buffalo

University at Buffalo

Activities and societies: Tau Beta Pi (engineering honors society) Completed a BSIE (Industrial Engineering) and worked on a business school research project for the Research Foundation of SUNY. Learned software programming in C++ and Matlab and numerous optimization and design software packages including Simulink, Arena, CPLEX, SAS, ProEngineer, COIN-OR, GLPK, Gurobi, etc.

Skills (36)

Backend

RabbitMQJavanodejs

DevOps

DatadogKubernetes

Other

AWSNew Relic APMSales Engineeringsolution engineerPost-SalesInternational SalesobservabilityMachine LearningSupport Engineersplatform engineerPlatform ArchitecturePython (Programming Language)WebrtcNode.js in AzureDocker SwarmSalesFirebaseCloudflareSupabaseAWSNode.jsFirebaseCloudflareSupabaseStack OverflowCloudPythonGitHubRustElixirTypeScript
Certifications (1)

USSF E license

U.S. Soccer Federation

Publications (1)

My site

Self · Aug 22, 2025

Volunteer Experience (2)

Marketing Intern

CCOF

Feb 2006 - Nov 2006 · 10 mos

Board member, DC chapter

Sierra Club

Jul 2011 - Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Alexander Mills's current role?
Alexander Mills is currently working as Fractional CTO and Chief Software Engineer at Dancing Dragons · Freelance.
Where did Alexander Mills study?
Alexander Mills studied MS / PhD candidate, ORIE - Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. They have 2 education entries on their profile.
What skills does Alexander Mills have?
Alexander Mills's top skills include AWS, New Relic APM, RabbitMQ, Sales Engineering, solution engineer. They have 36 skills listed on their profile.
Where is Alexander Mills based?
Alexander Mills is based in United States.

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