Blake Miller
Platform Architect
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBlake Miller is a Platform Architect with 17 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems and video intelligence infrastructure, currently leading platform engineering at IRIS.TV in Los Angeles. He blends functional programming passion and deep language/tool fluency with hands-on architecture work to enable AI/ML-driven metadata, personalization, and contextual advertising at scale. Blake brings full-stack sensibilities from front-end ClojureScript contributions (notably to the popular day8/re-com UI library) to backend platform design and dev workflow improvements. His background includes senior engineering and leadership roles at startups and product companies—shipping high‑traffic online games, trading platforms, and social apps. Known as a playful, inquisitive technologist, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a taste for experimentation and developer ergonomics. Self-taught in many areas, he excels at turning complex distributed problems into maintainable systems.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Self-educated
Stackoverflow
805reputation
118kreached
28answers
2questions
Github Skills (16)
reagent10
react10
clojurescript10
ui-components10
re-frame9
ruby-on-rails6
auto-increment6
clojure6
activerecord6
csv6
xmonad6
keybindings6
sql6
testing6
html5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
day8/re-com
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
A ClojureScript library of reusable components for Reagent
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Blake primarily contributed to the development of the `re-com` ClojureScript library, a collection of reusable UI components for Reagent. Their work focused on enhancing existing components and adding new functionality, specifically improving the typeahead demo, adding new features. They also addressed project configuration, adding a development profile for the CIDER ClojureScript REPL, demonstrating a proficiency in build and development workflows.
reactreusable-componentsclojurescript-libraryclojurescriptreagent
blak3mill3r/vmd-mode
May 2016 - May 2021
Snappy Markdown preview minor mode for emacs
Contributions:17 commits, 10 PRs, 19 pushes in 5 years
elispsnappyemacsmelpamarkdown
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