Dan Miller
Staff Software Engineer at Unity
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Miller is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with a decade of experience shaping AR/VR experiences and developer tools at Unity. He moves fluidly between hands-on systems work—shipping AR Foundation samples and PolySpatial/visionOS support—and product-facing roles that include sample content, templates, and external developer collaboration. Previously a Developer Advocate and Senior AR developer, he blends programming, design, and visual polish to raise interaction quality and developer UX for XR platforms. His open-source contributions to Unity-Technologies/arfoundation-samples demonstrate a focus on practical mobile AR touches like plane detection, UX animations, and camera updates that make demos production-ready. Comfortable leading cross-disciplinary teams, he also partners with creators and researchers to validate ideas and inform product strategy. Outside work he’s a prototype-driven tinkerer who often incubates new interaction concepts with friends.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Communication; Digital Media; Special effects Games and Animation, Bachelor of Science Communication; Digital Media; Special effects Games and Animation at Ohio University
Github Skills (5)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Unity-Technologies/arfoundation-samples
Jun 2018 - Jun 2020
Example content for Unity projects based on AR Foundation
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years
Contributions summary:Dan primarily worked on the AR Foundation Samples repository, focusing on the 'PlaceOnPlane' functionality. They refactored the existing code, conforming to naming conventions and modifying the touch input to allow for an object to be placed when a plane is detected. Furthermore, the user incorporated UX updates by adding a feature point texture, plane texture, animations for plane finding and placement, and fading planes off. The updates to the camera were also a key part of their changes.
unity3dunityar-foundationfoundation
Unity-Technologies/ARFoundationGDC2019
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:48 commits in 8 months
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