James Miller
Counsel at Law Office of James Ryland Miller, PLLC
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Miller is an experienced in-house counsel and entrepreneur with 11 years practicing law across estate planning, asset protection, and small-business transactions, now advising a family-run asset management firm in Ann Arbor. Licensed in Michigan and Texas, he combines practical corporate governance and real-estate experience—having served as an officer of a residential leasing company—with hands-on litigation and transactional work from his long-running private practice. Comfortable bridging legal strategy and operational detail, he’s skilled at structuring trusts, business formations, and collections while managing compliance for high-net-worth clients. An uncommon blend for a lawyer, he contributes to open-source software projects—improving documentation and usability for a Go-based 2D game engine—demonstrating attention to clarity and incremental product improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts, Biology, Bachelor of Arts, Biology at The University of Texas at AustinJ.D., Law, J.D., Law at Texas Wesleyan University School of Law
English
Github Skills (6)
go10
entity-component-system10
game-engine10
entity-component10
opengl9
documentation8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
EngoEngine/engo
Aug 2017 - Aug 2017
Engo is an open-source 2D game engine written in Go.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 15 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:James primarily contributed to documentation and functionality enhancements within the game engine. Their work included adding whitespace and punctuation to code comments for better readability, as well as providing documentation for camera zoom functionality. They also implemented right mouse dragging and cursor visibility features, and merged changes from the main branch.
golang2d-game2d-game-enginegame-developmentopengl
OpenSFNovels/opensfnovel01
Jul 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 2 PRs, 21 pushes in 2 years 3 months
sciencemethodscience-fictionsnowflaketop-down
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