Brandon Mills
Director Of Engineering at Drive Capital
Columbus, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Mills is a Director of Engineering with 14 years of experience building investor-grade software platforms at Drive Capital, where he scaled the systems that support $2B+ in investments and progressed from individual contributor to engineering leader. He combines hands-on full‑stack development with product-minded leadership, shipping both backend features and polished front-end experiences. An active open-source maintainer on ESLint, he contributed new rules, performance optimizations, and CLI enhancements to one of the most widely used JavaScript linters. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he pairs a pragmatic engineering ethos—self-described “yak shaver” who loves smoothing rough edges—with a solid CS&E foundation from Ohio State.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science & Engineering, B.S. Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
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Github Skills (26)
static-code-analysis10
javascript10
jquery10
css10
eslint10
rule-engine10
svg10
linter10
rule10
ecmascript10
visualization9
code-optimization9
responsive-design9
visualizations9
nodejs9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
btmills/geopattern
Jan 2014 - Jul 2017
Generate beautiful SVG patterns
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 124 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Brandon primarily contributed to the user interface development of the `geopattern` project. Their work focused on improving the visual presentation of the patterns, including refactoring the stylesheet and adding a mobile viewport. The user also implemented interactive elements by changing the input string value and triggered the pattern updates. Furthermore, the user focused on code formatting and bug fixing to enhance functionality.
svggeopatternjavascriptvisualization
eslint/eslint
Feb 2014 - Dec 2022
Find and fix problems in your JavaScript code.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 238 reviews, 202 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Brandon contributed several new rules to the ESLint project, covering areas such as block structure, boolean casting, variable usage, comma operator usage, and code formatting. They also refactored existing code, optimizing the performance of variable name lookups and improving the token API. Furthermore, the user implemented new CLI flags and features, including "--reset", "--no-eslintrc", "--env", "--global", and added the ability to track rule execution times.
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