Nicholas Miller
Staff Software Engineer at Cruise
Vancouver, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Miller is a Staff Software Engineer based in Vancouver, Washington with 11 years of experience building embedded and vehicle-scale software systems. He has held progressive engineering and leadership roles at Cruise (returning to the company as Staff after an earlier senior role), led firmware at IoT-focused Golioth, and served as Principal Software Engineer at SpinDance, demonstrating cross-domain strength from electrical engineering through full-stack embedded development. Nicholas combines a strong academic foundation—a 4.0 M.S. in Computer Science—and a decade-plus of practical systems experience to drive reliability and performance in complex, safety-conscious products. Known for bridging firmware, software, and hardware teams, he brings a pragmatic, systems-level mindset and a track record of shipping robust production code in autonomous and connected-device contexts.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, 4.0 at Florida Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.4, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Engineering, 3.4 at Georgia Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (51)
unix10
coap10
iot-device10
lte10
firmware10
espressif10
freertos10
software-update10
browser10
ota10
kernel10
rpc10
iot-platform10
esp3210
esp-idf10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ncmiller/ncmiller.github.io
Feb 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:66 pushes in 4 years 2 months
ncmiller/hectic-hexagons
Jun 2021 - Mar 2022
Contributions:66 commits, 74 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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