Scott Miller
Software Engineering Lead at DigitalOcean
United States
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Top SchoolScott Miller is a software engineering leader and founder with 11+ years delivering product and platform solutions, currently leading the DigitalOcean Marketplace engineering team. He founded Helpy, an open-source/on-prem customer support platform with over 500,000 installs, and continues to contribute backend improvements to its admin and ticketing UI. Scott blends product-minded leadership—having driven major conversion and revenue gains at Vivint and built partner commerce experiences at Overstock—with hands-on engineering across Ruby/Rails stacks. Known for shipping pragmatic, secure systems for private deployments, he pairs startup founder grit with enterprise delivery experience and a knack for squeezing big impact from focused engineering efforts.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business Administration Marketing Communications, B.S. Business Administration Marketing Communications at University of VermontHigh School, High School at Westford Academy
English, French, Russian
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Github Skills (15)
rails10
api10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby-on-rails10
database9
database-api9
databases9
sql-server6
caching6
ajax6
ajax-form6
database-design6
mongomapper6
ruby6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
helpyio/helpy
Apr 2015 - Oct 2021
Helpy is a modern, open source helpdesk customer support application. Features include knowledgebase, community discussions and support tickets integrated with email.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:38 releases, 2581 commits, 1389 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Scott appears to be making modifications to the helpdesk application's backend, specifically adding functionality to the admin interface. The user is focused on integrating features like a help button, disabling admin elements based on feature enablement, adding a group scoping feature and improving the ticket UI. They appear to be modifying layout files (ERB), controllers, models, and possibly associated API interactions.
e-mailhelpdeskknowledge-baseforumticketing
scott/do_addon_connector
Nov 2021 - May 2022
Connects your rails app to the marketplace
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 3 PRs in 5 months
rails-app
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