Kim Miller is a San Francisco-based serial entrepreneur and startup panelist organizer with 13+ years building fintech, AI, and blockchain ventures. She founded Spokenvote, a MIT-licensed open-source direct democracy platform that crowdsources future decisions and scales from local groups to national governance. In her current role at VLAB, she curates panelists for ICOs and blockchain events, connecting industry leaders with regulators like the SEC to illuminate the crypto fundraising landscape. As Community Leader for the Mechanical Investing Open-Source Community, she develops AI-driven backtests on a century of securities data and contributes open-source tools and TensorFlow experiments to the finance tech ecosystem. An alumna of Stanford in Machine Learning and Deep Learning, with business training from Georgia State and programming expertise from the University of Washington, she blends technical depth with product, marketing, and policy insight to turn ambitious ideas into practical, impactful solutions.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Languages, Functional / Object-Oriented, Programming Languages, Functional / Object-Oriented at University of Washington
Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance at Georgia State University
Machine Learning, Deep Learning, A, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, A at Stanford University
Contributions:10 commits, 19 PRs, 28 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the API functionality of the `discourse/discourse_api` repository, focusing on adding and modifying API endpoints. Their work involved adding group and category notification level management features. They also implemented several new methods related to polls, including voting, status toggling, and voter retrieval. The changes are well documented and include tests to ensure the functionality of new API endpoints.
Spokenvote.org is a social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size, coded in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. At the center of the direct democracy movement, Spokenvote radically enhances a group’s ability to reach consensus and make better decisions using an intuitive democratic process.
Contributions:1544 commits, 61 PRs, 39 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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