About
Summary
Joseph Milla is currently the Head of Infrastructure at Pomelo, a fintech company on a mission to expand financial access and empowerment for immigrants and their families, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Pomelo has successfully raised $35M in a Series A round led by Vy Capital, bringing total funding to $55M in equity and securing an additional $125M in warehouse financing. Pomelo’s notable investors include Founders Fund, A* Capital, and artists such as The Chainsmokers and The Weeknd.
With a background in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Joseph is passionate about building teams and foundational components that enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of core mobile-first systems. He thrives on the challenge of creating teams and companies from the ground up—scaling from zero to IPO—and transforming them into scalable, secure, and impactful organizations.
Previously, Joseph was an Engineering Manager at AppLovin (NASDAQ: APP), a mobile ads company, where he built the Infrastructure team and led efforts in compute, traffic, and storage through rapid growth, culminating in the company’s IPO at a $28.6B valuation backed by KKR. Before that, he began his career at Zycada, a CDN startup, where he played a key role in funding rounds totaling $31.5M and an acquisition by Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW).