Jerel Miller
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Apollo GraphQL
Windsor, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolJerel Miller is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and evolving front-end systems and developer-facing libraries, currently leading engineering at Apollo GraphQL from Windsor, Colorado. He progressed through senior and lead roles at New Relic, Womply, and FocusVision, bringing a track record of driving architectural improvements and ship-ready features across SaaS and observability domains. At Apollo he made notable open-source contributions to the widely used apollo-client, improving hooks like useQuery and useSubscription to enable smoother UIs, better deferred-query handling, and preload/startTransition support. Known for balancing product-minded engineering with technical stewardship, he focuses on edge-case robustness and developer experience rather than flashy rewrites. Comfortable mentoring across teams, he blends hands-on implementation with long-term architecture decisions informed by production realities. He holds a Computer Science degree from Colorado School of Mines and often surfaces practical, low-friction changes that yield outsized user and developer impact.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Bachelors, Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
react-redux10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
react-router-dom10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
typescripts10
react10
react-router-v49
react-router9
create-react-app6
google-chrome-extension6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apollographql/apollo-client
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
The industry-leading GraphQL client for TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Vue, Angular, and more. Apollo Client delivers powerful caching, intuitive APIs, and comprehensive developer tools to accelerate your app development.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2290 reviews, 83 commits, 1089 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jerel primarily focused on enhancing the Apollo Client library by improving the user experience of the `useSubscription` and `useQuery` hooks. They refactored and renamed handler names, ensuring compatibility with new options, and implemented features such as the ability to preload queries and use startTransition for a smoother user interface. The user also addressed data masking and various edge cases related to deferred queries, ensuring data integrity and consistent behavior.
angularapollo-clientcachinggraphql-clientjavascript
jerelmiller/react-native-pokedex
Sep 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:92 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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