Darian Miller
Owner at Ideas Awakened, Inc.
Geneseo, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDarian Miller is a pragmatic software entrepreneur and seasoned full-stack developer with more than 30 years building solutions across MS-DOS, Windows desktop, client/server, SaaS, and cloud environments, with Delphi as his primary tool. As founder of Ideas Awakened and former CTO of ProMax, he has led the creation and long-term maintenance of multi-million-line codebases and mission-critical products for decades. He pairs hands-on coding with systems-level experience in hardware, networking, security, databases, and support—often turning ill-defined requests into working solutions. A recognized Embarcadero MVP, Darian blends engineering grit with an operator’s instinct honed running an e-commerce brand that reached nearly $1M in sales. He’s known for persistence and practical problem-solving: he admits to learning from mistakes but insists on steady progress until a solution is delivered. Located in Geneseo, Illinois, he continues to enjoy building things the hard way and making them work.
13 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
Accounting, Accounting at Augustana CollegeAccounting, Accounting at Black Hawk CollegeBachelor of Business Accounting, Bachelor of Business Accounting at Western Illinois University
Github Skills (182)
powershell10
pascal10
delphi10
devcontainer10
routines10
one-time-password10
sarif9
rubygems9
code-library9
azure9
mongodb-driver9
semgrep9
one-time9
fpc9
jwt-authentication9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ideasawakened/ideasawakened.github.io
May 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 157 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
darianmiller/dxLib
May 2013 - Mar 2022
Delphi 5 - Delphi XE+ general purpose library of routines.
Contributions:80 commits, 40 pushes in 8 years 11 months
pascaldelphipurposeroutineslow-level
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