Steven Miller
Founding Engineer at Kernel (YC S25)
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Miller is a founding engineer and infrastructure-minded startup operator with 11 years of experience building scalable platforms, release engineering, and developer productivity tools. He’s shipped high-availability cloud services and release pipelines at companies like Astronomer and Cerebral, and helped launch Tembo Cloud and Trunk, a package manager for Postgres extensions. Currently a founding engineer at Kernel (YC S25), he’s working on flexible network proxies and other networking primitives that bridge developer ergonomics with production observability. Based in Cincinnati, he blends hands-on systems coding (Python, Go, Terraform) with incident leadership and security-focused DevOps, and has a track record of turning operational pain points into platform products. An early lab researcher turned cloud engineer, he brings scientific curiosity to reliability and developer tooling.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (200)
testing10
proxy10
failover10
scheduling10
automation10
notification-center10
steroids10
k8s10
operator10
mesos10
glusterfs10
self-healing10
session-replay10
recording10
scheduler10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
tembo-io/tembo-stacks
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Goodbye Database Sprawl, Hello Postgres
Contributions:208 reviews, 173 PRs, 304 pushes in 4 months
kubernetespostgresqlruststackstembo
sjmiller609/orbit-ui
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
React UI for the Astronomer Platform
Contributions:26 releases, 32 PRs, 78 pushes in 1 month
reactastronomerreact-uiastronomer-platform
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