# Cody Mills

> Software Engineer at Instagram

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/codymills

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2023 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area

### Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Worked on the Optimizations team in the Payment Intelligence group, applying machine learning techniques to maximize authorized charge volume while controlling for fraud

Technologies: Java, Python, SQL, Spark, Pandas, Tensorflow, Ruby

### Engineering Manager / Staff Software Engineer @ American Express
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined via the LoungeBuddy acquisition. Manager for the LB Platform & Web team (8 eng) while retaining existing responsibilities as lead backend engineer and technical architect. 

Technologies: Node.js, TypeScript, Golang, MongoDB, Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, Heroku, Docker, GraphQL

Chairman's Award 2020 (top 3%)

### Tech Lead @ LoungeBuddy
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Joined LoungeBuddy as engineer #3 (working primarily on backend) and remained with the team through its acquisition by American Express in 2019

### Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Los Altos, CA
Full stack software engineer on the Enterprise Systems team. Also spent time with the Platform team on a project related to improving Box’s OAuth2 flow

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bonafide
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto, CA
Full stack software engineering intern; built the groups feature and enhanced search/recommendations

### Associate Product Manager Intern @ VeriFone
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Jose, CA
Managed multiple product work streams across three countries. Presented a proposal for leveraging/monetizing product data to the COO and executive suite


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemical Engineering
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Mathematical and Computational Science
Stanford University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/cody-mills-53849050

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Source: https://flows.cv/codymills
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/codymills/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-29