Sydney Mills

Overview

I've spent 22 years on mobile apps - first at DoorDash, now at LinkedIn. Built the experimentation framework 23 product teams use to ship changes safely. Before that: DoorDash and McKinsey & Company. Most at home with Gradle and Node.js. I write short fiction no one reads.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Jun 2022 - Present
   LinkedIn · 4 yr 4 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Cut p99 latency on the Android services from 738ms to 170ms.
   • Wrote the Kotlin service that now handles 14 million requests a day.
   • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
2. Senior Engineering Manager

   Nov 2020 - Jun 2022
   DoorDash · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Wrote the Node.js service that now handles 9 million requests a day.
   • Grew the Android team from 5 to 21 engineers.
3. Principal Engineer

   Oct 2018 - Nov 2020
   McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Sit on 3 boards.
4. Staff Android Engineer

   Mar 2015 - Oct 2018
   Dell Technologies · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Reduced cloud spend on Android by 40% in two quarters.
5. Android Engineer

   Sep 2013 - Dec 2014
   DoorDash · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Austin, TX
   • Shipped 23 launches on the Android team without a rollback.

Projects

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Education

1. Cornell University

   BS, Electronics and Communication
   1999 - 2003