Tom Miller
Founder at Midnight Pounce Studios
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarTom Miller is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 26+ years building high-performance software, cloud, and AI solutions—primarily in gaming and platform engineering. He has scaled organizations to 120+ engineers across three continents, drove $40M+ in Fortune 500 cloud revenue, and repeatedly doubled product velocity while slashing defects and latency. At Microsoft he led GPU/NPU compiler efforts and game platforms that boosted frame rates up to 6× on low-end devices and cut GPU frame times by 15%, securing multiple patents along the way. Tom combines hands-on product work (including front-end contributions to Microsoft’s popular VoTT tagging tool) with executive-level stakeholder alignment and monthly roadmap steering that accelerated partner time-to-market by 50%. He’s known for simplifying complexity, building leadership pipelines (mentoring many principals), and optimizing engineering spend across hardware, ML training, and cloud inference. Based in Redmond, Tom now channels that operating experience into founding Midnight Pounce Studios, focused on teams and products that create lasting impact.
7 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (14)
videojs10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
html9
css9
testing8
image-annotation7
object-detection6
annotations5
annotate5
annotator5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/VoTT
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Visual Object Tagging Tool: An electron app for building end to end Object Detection Models from Images and Videos.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 25 PRs, 72 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Tom primarily focused on developing and improving the front-end components of the "Visual Object Tagging Tool". They implemented features for video playback and tagging within the editor page, including a video player with customizable playback and timeline marks. The contributions involved integrating the video player with canvas tools and updating tests to support the new video features, showing a clear focus on enhancing the user experience and functionality of the application. They also worked on the project settings page.
imagetaggervideosannotation-tooltaggingtoolsend-to-end
cse-airflow/incubator-airflow
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Apache Airflow (Incubating)
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 29 pushes in 1 month
incubatingapachebig-datasparkairflow
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