Summary
Joshua Miller is a seasoned software leader and founder with 11 years of experience building resilient, event-driven systems and developer tooling. As a co-founder and former staff engineer, he has led payments architecture, modernized legacy flows into Kafka-based systems, and standardized observability with OpenTelemetry to improve reliability and diagnostics. He pairs hands-on engineering—designing CI/CD guardrails, acceptance testing frameworks, and platform integrations—with coaching and cross-team partnership to reduce regressions and speed delivery. Joshua has experience delivering secure, production software for both commercial and government domains, including continuous ATO pipelines and real-time track management for defense systems. He also runs a developer tools consultancy and maintains open-source quality tooling, showing a knack for automating workflows that scale engineering velocity. Based in Des Moines, he brings a pragmatic, get-things-done ethos shaped by prior military communications experience and startup leadership.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of Iowa
English, Spanish