Summary
Vitorio Miliano is a Principal Consultant and seasoned UX/AI practitioner with 17 years of experience helping teams turn emerging technologies into usable products and research-informed workflows. He blends hands-on prototyping, user research, and tool-building—from notebook UIs and LLM precursors to custom AI workshop tools and offline audio-editing workflows—to make advanced tech accessible to non-experts. As a player-coach at Optum and a long-time consultant, he has led strategy, upskilling, and end-to-end product efforts that scale across organizations. His background includes preserving and emulating legacy digital artifacts (Internet Archive/JSMESS), founding startups that pushed real-time 3D and developer ecosystems, and evaluating dozens of voice and video generative models for practical, lay use. Based in Austin, he pairs deep technical curiosity with facilitation and participatory design to help founders and teams adopt realistic, responsible AI practices. An unusual strength: he systematically documents VFX and practical workflows so practitioners without specialist backgrounds can reproduce complex media tasks.
17 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Geography, Bachelor of Arts Geography at The University of Texas at Austin