Charissa Miller
Senior Software Systems Engineer at MITRE
City of Rochester, New York, United States
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Top SchoolCharissa Miller is a Senior Software Systems Engineer with seven years of experience building secure, data-driven web applications at MITRE, progressing from intern to senior engineer. She blends front-end polish—contributing UI controls and interaction improvements to the widely used MITRE ATT&CK navigator—with back-end integration work that enriched campaign and timeline data across the ATT&CK website. Based in Rochester, NY, Charissa holds an accelerated BS/MS in Computer Science and Computing Security from RIT and has a practical background bridging IT internships and research fellowships. She excels at turning complex security data into usable interfaces and features, and her contributions show a knack for cross-module coordination and user-focused tooling.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Accelerated (BS/MS) Dual Degree Program in Computer Science (BS) and Computing Security (MS), Accelerated (BS/MS) Dual Degree Program in Computer Science (BS) and Computing Security (MS) at Rochester Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mitre-attack/attack-navigator
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Web app that provides basic navigation and annotation of ATT&CK matrices
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:14 releases, 48 reviews, 512 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Charissa primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `attack-navigator` web application, focusing on the implementation and refinement of user interface components related to displaying and interacting with techniques and sub-techniques. The commits demonstrate the addition of features, such as controls for selecting and displaying sub-techniques across tactics, improvements to the user interface layout to show or hide sub-techniques in various layout modes, and the addition of a domain control for the layer by operation tool. They also worked on adding a feature for users to copy and clear technique annotations.
matricescyber-threat-intelligencectimitre-attackcybersecurity
mitre-attack/attack-website
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
MITRE ATT&CK Website
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 34 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Charissa contributed significantly to the website's campaign pages, adding functionality to display "first seen" and "last seen" dates. They also integrated campaign pages into the random page feature and the "attack in excel" resource. Furthermore, the user updated the group, software, and technique pages to display campaign-related information. These changes required modifications across multiple modules, indicating a focus on data integration and expanding the site's capabilities.
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