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)
api-management10
postgresql10
reverse-proxy10
python10
marathon10
data-warehouse10
proxy10
failover10
grafana10
web-analytics10
zookeeper10
terraform10
prometheus-exporter10
security10
etl10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
astronomer/terraform-aws-astronomer-aws
Jun 2019 - Oct 2020
Deploys all infrastructure required for Astronomer to run on AWS. For a complete deployment, see https://github.com/astronomer/terraform-aws-astronomer-enterprise
Contributions:7 releases, 7 reviews, 102 commits in 1 year 4 months
awsterraformastronomer-softwareastro-private-cloud
tembo-io/tembo-stacks
Jul 2023 - Dec 2023
Goodbye Database Sprawl, Hello Postgres
Contributions:208 reviews, 173 PRs, 304 pushes in 4 months
databasepostgresqlkubernetesruststacks
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