# Walker Mills

> Staff Software Engineer at Astronomer

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/walkermills

I teach computers to do my job for me. The more I automate, the more I can focus on learning new things, and sharing them with my peers.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Astronomer
Jan 2021 – Present | Redwood City, California, United States
My team develops automated systems for provisioning & managing Airflow instances in the cloud

### Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, WA
I worked on the Google Analytics backend, Prodspec, and Annealing to automate cross-datacenter migrations of peta-scale pipelines with zero downtime

### Production Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater Seattle Area
I worked on Facebook's Advanced Measurement product, formerly known as Atlas, to improve the resource efficiency of our pipelines and redesign for reliability

### Teaching Assistant @ California Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Seattle
I worked on the Cold Storage team developing new platform features such as at-rest encryption and improving the efficiency and readability of the data storage & retrieval code.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
I worked on Amazon WebView, a fork of the Chromium project, to improve video streaming performance on Amazon's Kindle Fire devices.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
Caltech

### Modesto High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/walker-mills-95b08b81

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Last updated: 2026-03-29