Ryan Miller is an engineer with 13 years of experience building, scaling, and maintaining web applications, now focusing on preconstruction architecture from Seattle. He has progressed from frontend roles to engineering manager and principal frontend engineer positions, leading teams responsible for content rendering and platform reliability at Highspot and Algorithmia. Comfortable across the stack, Ryan emphasizes secure, performant, and maintainable web architectures while supporting globally distributed frontend teams. He contributes to open source work that sharpens communication—examples include improving a popular bookmarklet that translates marketing jargon into plain English. A philosophy graduate who lives by "Sapere aude," he brings a thoughtful, pragmatic approach to engineering trade-offs and team mentorship.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's Degree, Associate's Degree at Spokane Falls Community College
Bachelor's Degree Philosophy, Bachelor's Degree Philosophy at Western Washington University
A bookmarklet for translating marketing speak into human-readable text. :poop:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:6 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to updating the `terms.js` and `replace.js` files, indicating a focus on the core functionality of the "bullshit.js" bookmarklet. Their modifications involved adding and correcting regular expressions and conditional logic, likely related to identifying and replacing marketing jargon. The commits show the user enhancing the application's ability to translate specific terms, improving the accuracy and scope of the text transformation.
Contributions:86 commits, 17 PRs, 71 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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