Kim Miller
Featured Startup Panelist Organizer
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKim Miller is a seasoned serial entrepreneur and community leader with 13 years of technology experience based in San Francisco, known for founding Spokenvote and steering open-source AI and backtesting efforts at Mechanical Investing. He blends product, operations, and fundraising instincts with hands-on engineering — contributing backend API features to well-regarded projects like the Discourse API and building TensorFlow experiments for longevity-grade financial datasets. Kim organizes high-profile Silicon Valley events on blockchain and token fundraising, and his work spans civic tech, energy investing, and developer communities, reflecting a rare mix of policy interest and technical fluency. People-first leadership and a persistent focus on solving hard, socially meaningful problems tie together his exits, volunteer work, and platform-building efforts.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Programming Languages, Functional / Object-Oriented, Programming Languages, Functional / Object-Oriented at University of WashingtonMarketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance, Marketing and Finance at Georgia State UniversityMachine Learning, Deep Learning, A, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, A at Stanford University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
apidoc10
rspec10
ruby10
api10
api-design9
restful-api9
api-rest9
smtp9
rest-api9
e-mail9
rubygems7
ruby-on-rails6
keras6
lstm6
angularjs6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse_api
Feb 2019 - Nov 2019
Ruby API for Discourse
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 19 PRs, 28 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the API functionality of the `discourse/discourse_api` repository, focusing on adding and modifying API endpoints. Their work involved adding group and category notification level management features. They also implemented several new methods related to polls, including voting, status toggling, and voter retrieval. The changes are well documented and include tests to ensure the functionality of new API endpoints.
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Spokenvote/spokenvote
Sep 2012 - Mar 2021
Spokenvote.org is a social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size, coded in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. At the center of the direct democracy movement, Spokenvote radically enhances a group’s ability to reach consensus and make better decisions using an intuitive democratic process.
Contributions:1544 commits, 61 PRs, 39 pushes in 8 years 7 months
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