Summary
Anita Miller is a Senior Software Engineer based in Melbourne with seven years of experience building reactive, back-end systems at scale. She has driven critical event streaming and microservices work using Kafka, Kubernetes, Scala and MySQL at companies including Zendesk and Atlassian, and emphasizes patterns like CDC, entity streams and performance-first practices. Anita pairs hands-on engineering with mentoring—organising functional programming and Scala workshops that reached 200+ colleagues and tutoring algorithm courses at university. She champions testing, monitoring, pair programming and runbook-driven reliability, and has a history of creating internal training (C#, Docker) that accelerates team capability. Known for translating complex distributed-system requirements into practical, observable solutions, she brings both production rigor and a passion for giving back to the tech community.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Melbourne
Turkish, English, Persian