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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
Connor Mills