Jesse Miller
Sr. Backend Software Engineer at Zoro.com
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolJesse Miller is a senior backend software engineer in Chicago with 11 years building developer platforms, event-driven systems, and high-throughput backend services. He combines hands-on systems engineering with product and team leadership, having scaled critical EDI systems 10x and slashed p99 memory and p50 latency while mentoring teams in cloud architecture and event sourcing. Jesse has led end-to-end platform builds—from a securities platform handling seven-figure investments to a Web3 marketplace—bringing Lean and Agile practices that accelerate delivery without sacrificing reliability. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the Vyper smart contract language’s structure, tests, and docs, reflecting his interest in blockchain tooling and secure contracts. Known as a “radical incrementalist,” he favors continuous, measurable improvements across code, systems, and teams.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology, Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and Technology at California State University - East BayAshevill High School
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Github Skills (6)
smart-contracts10
vyper10
python10
ethereum10
documentation9
testing9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
vyperlang/vyper
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Pythonic Smart Contract Language for the EVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Jesse focused on enhancing the Vyper smart contract language repository by implementing features and improvements related to contract structure, documentation, and testing. Their contributions included documenting visibility requirements for functions, adding tests and logs within example contracts, and refining the test suite. The user's work also involved modifying the contract structure and documentation related to events.
pythonsmart-contractethereumcontractblockchain
jessebmiller/trbac
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
What is typed role based access controls with constraints?
Contributions:8 PRs, 28 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years
rolerole-basedrole-based-access
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