Richard Mills
I started my career as a mechanical engineer — five years at Syncrude managing multidisciplinary teams and $5M+ project portfolios in the oil sands. Then I went back to school for computer science (MacEwan University, 3.9 GPA), and I've been writing software ever since.
For the last six years I've been at QuoteToMe, a B2B SaaS platform serving the construction industry, most recently as lead engineer. I joined early and have contributed at every layer of the stack through every stage of the company's growth.
Today I own technical decisions, system architecture, and infrastructure, and I mentor a junior developer while collaborating closely with product and design.
My main stack is TypeScript and Python on a PostgreSQL/Redis/Elasticsearch backend. I also write Rust for personal projects. I have a bias toward backend and systems work but I'm comfortable across the full stack.
Own technical decisions and system architecture. Mentor junior developers, involved in hiring and onboarding. Query optimization, infrastructure management, background job orchestration.
Drove growth from near-zero to $900k CAD ARR. Built AI document extraction pipeline with custom heuristics and LLM-based email classification. Integrated QuickBooks, Vista, and Procore.
Built core accounting features: invoices, expenses, purchase orders, change orders. Led TypeScript migration across the frontend. Established CI/CD pipeline with strong backend test coverage.
Full-stack: Python/PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch/Redis backend; Vue.js/Nuxt frontend. Built the admin dashboard and launched the Vue.js/Capacitor mobile app.
Built a web application for the Accounting School using React, Django, and SQL. Trained an object detector for engineering statics problems.
Led a $5M+ project portfolio with a multidisciplinary team, managing technical and financial delivery and aligning stakeholders across departments.
3D anatomical model explorer built for physiotherapists and their clients.
Submit gratitudes to the void — real-time shared feed with websockets and LLM content moderation.
3.9 GPA · Minor in Business Studies · European Innovation Academy, Portugal 2019