Ricky Miller
Engineering Manager at Drivemode
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Miller is an engineering leader with 11 years of hands-on software experience who has built and managed products that reach millions of users across news aggregation, content delivery, and engagement platforms. As an Engineering Manager at SmartNews and now leading engineering at Drivemode, he combines product-facing collaboration with designers, PMs, and data scientists to ship features like real-time COVID-19 dashboards, election results, and a subscription offering. He brings strong TypeScript and web-technology expertise and a track record of moving from individual contributor to staff-level architecture and management roles. Based in Tokyo, he blends startup agility with product-scale engineering practices and a curiosity for new technologies. An early-career director and long-term independent developer, he’s comfortable owning both strategy and implementation across the stack.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
American School In JapanDropout, Computer Science, Dropout, Computer Science at 国際基督教大学 / International Christian University
English, Japanese, Chinese
Github Skills (184)
testing10
automation10
firebase10
javascript-api10
firebase-authentication10
javascript10
chromium10
firebase-realtime-database10
firefox10
azure-devops10
firebase-database10
developer-tools10
firebase-messaging10
dependency-manager10
node-module10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
sekando/feednami-client
Dec 2015 - Jan 2017
A lightweight Javascript client for downloading RSS/Atom feeds
Contributions:20 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 1 month
atom-feedjavascriptrss
richardkazuomiller/express-http-proxy
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Proxy middleware for express/connect
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 37 PRs in 1 year
proxyproxy-middlewareexpressnodejsmiddleware
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