Sam Millington
Backend Engineer at 9fin
Basingstoke and Deane, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSam Millington is a backend engineer with nine years' experience designing and shipping high-performance microservices and distributed systems, currently building cloud-native platforms at 9fin. Comfortable in Rust and Python, he focuses on system design, performance optimisation and scalable architecture, and has led technical projects while mentoring peers. His background spans fintech and defence-adjacent projects at PassFort (Moody's Analytics) and QinetiQ, bringing a pragmatic, security-conscious approach to production services. An active contributor to backend codebases—including work on Spring Boot modules and image-processing APIs—he blends hands-on refactoring and integration expertise with a curiosity for bioinformatics-adjacent tooling reflected on his GitHub.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering at University of Southampton
Japanese
Stackoverflow
1,274reputation
119kreached
15answers
47questions
Github Skills (19)
apidoc10
java10
javas10
api10
spring-boot10
image-processing9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
testing8
csv6
spring-data-jpa6
amazon-s36
stringbuilder6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
eugenp/tutorials
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
Getting Started with Spring Boot 3:
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:64 commits, 191 PRs, 88 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sam's contributions primarily involved backend development, including creating and modifying Java code for various modules, like security and JVM. They integrated an API for image processing. The user also refactored code and addressed integration issues, focusing on building and modifying the systems. Furthermore, the user reverted changes, indicating a role in managing and maintaining the existing codebase.
springspring-boot
MrSamMillington/CodingCheatSheets
May 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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