Connor Mills
Garnet Valley
Summary
Dynamic Application Engineer with a proven track record at Vanguard, excelling in front-end and back-end development. Spearheaded architectural improvements and enhanced code quality through innovative solutions. Adept in object-oriented programming and fostering team collaboration, driving significant advancements in application performance and user accessibility. Recognized for exceptional contributions and leadership.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work History
Application Engineer III
Vanguard
09.2024 - Current
- Brought on as a team lead of 7 to help upskill team members and improve code quality
- Architected refactor of angular app to use RXJS to manage state and flow for increased quality.
- Key driver in refactoring code to help reduce complexity in code base
- Set up AWS applications to include: step functions, lambdas, SNS, SQS
- Maintained and built money movement space for our application
Application Engineer II
Vanguard
05.2023 - 09.2024
- Set SRE guidelines for the team and managed error budget
- Developed and brought new hires up to speed
- Worked on latest technologies such as Micro front end architecture, Angular, Typescript
- Strong emphasis on testing and quality assurance
- Communicated effectively and efficiently to team and department members
- Contributed and influenced DAP technical approach via UI touchpoints
- Worked through challenging technical complications throughout the application
- Worked extensively on accessibility enhancements of components
Application Engineer I
Vanguard
10.2021 - 05.2023
- Recognized as top performer at year-end review
- Built and maintained new features for Vanguard’s Digital Advisor web app
- High aptitude with jest to write unit tests and integration tests to ensure quality standard of code
Education
Master of science - Computer Science, Computational Perception & Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology
11.2025
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University
05.2021
Skills
- Front-end and back-end development
- AI tools and technologies
- Object-oriented programming
Side Projects
Project lead for sponsored capstone project, 03/01/21, Inherited an application using C#, Xamarin, and VCS, Extended the API and database models to support user messaging via HTTP, Queried external API to display pharmacological information to users, Used MVVM architecture to implement user interface for new functionality
Timeline
Application Engineer III
Vanguard
09.2024 - Current
Application Engineer II
Vanguard
05.2023 - 09.2024
Application Engineer I
Vanguard
10.2021 - 05.2023
Master of science - Computer Science, Computational Perception & Robotics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science, Mathematics
Pennsylvania State University