Derek Miller
Senior Software Developer at Kinsale Insurance
Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDerek Miller is a Senior Software Developer based in Richmond, VA with five years of hands-on experience building scalable front-end and back-end systems using React, Angular, Node.js, and modern API integrations. He has led cross-functional teams to rebuild apps and design systems, improve WCAG accessibility, and drive performance and scalability at consumer-focused companies like Zogo and Kinsale Insurance. Derek also contributes to open-source tooling—most notably refactoring and documenting cache behavior and destructuring in a Deno GraphQL caching project—to reduce over/under-fetching and improve developer ergonomics. His background includes architecting SSO integrations for banks, deploying containerized demos on AWS, and applying Redis-backed caching strategies for atomic, high-performance data access. Colleagues know him for turning complex integration requirements into clear, documented solutions that boost engagement and simplify maintenance.
5 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Virginia TechMaster's degree, Master's degree at Purdue University
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
caching10
typescript10
deno10
javascript10
typescripts10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
typescript-types10
documentation10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
open-source-labs/obsidian
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
GraphQL, built for Deno - a native GraphQL caching client and server module
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 76 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Derek primarily focused on documenting and refactoring the cache-related functionality of the GraphQL client and server module. Their work involved creating detailed documentation for the cache, including examples and explanations of different caching strategies. The user also contributed to the implementation of the new destructuring functionality, and incorporated fixes for edge cases and code-related bugs in the existing documentation.
javascriptcachingdenographqltypescript
oslabs-beta/obsidian
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
GraphQL, built for Deno - a native GraphQL caching client and server module
Contributions:53 reviews, 51 PRs, 23 pushes in 28 days
typescriptdenocachinggraphql
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