Greg Miller
Principal Software Engineer at Amazon
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGreg Miller is a Principal Software Engineer based in the Greater Seattle Area with a decade-plus track record building and optimizing large-scale, low-latency search systems at Amazon. He specializes in Lucene-backed product search, contributing performance optimizations and core-indexing fixes upstream to Apache Lucene while driving Amazon’s feature and experimentation work for search relevance and navigation. Greg blends hands-on backend engineering with leadership experience—having managed search teams and chaired the Lucene PMC—so he parcels technical depth with product-focused delivery. His contributions to packed integer compression and multi-value range facets in Lucene highlight a knack for subtle, high-impact performance improvements. Outside engineering, he has a long-running interest in photography, reflecting an eye for detail that informs both code and user-facing search experiences.
5 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Photography Extension Program, Photography Extension Program at University of WashingtonBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Github Skills (9)
algorithm10
lucene10
compression10
javas10
algorithms10
information-retrieval10
back-end-development10
compress10
java10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
gsmiller/lucene
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Apache Lucene open-source search software
Contributions:105 commits, 2 PRs, 472 pushes in 1 year 7 months
solrapachesynonymssearch-enginelucene
gsmiller/lucene-solr
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Apache Lucene and Solr open-source search software
Contributions:20 pushes, 51 branches in 7 months
solrapachesearch-engineluceneelasticsearch
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