Hello 👋🏻, I'm Miller. Born and raised in the midwest,
I've been using & building computers since I was a kid. Enrolling in my
first programming class in highschool with Al Miner, he gave me the
ability to see how computers can make my ideas come to life.
I graduated and went to the University of Kansas, not knowing what a Software Engineer was or what I was going to do with my life. I started with my core credits by taking any class I found compelling. Film, Sociology(William G. Staples), Philsophy, Photography (Mike Sinclair, whom I have great respect for), and Geology all of which I look back on fondly. As time progressed, I needed to decide on a major.
In my second year, I googled "programming job security" and saw that it was a growing industry. With that, I enrolled in all my basic Computer Science classes for the next semster. They were extremely challenging, and I came very close to abandoning the program. The first day of the Engineering seminar class Clay Beabout sat down next to me and introduced himself. We quickly became friends and stuck by each others side throughout our degree. I credit to both him and Kaitlin O'Brien for keeping me from dropping out of the CS program.
I joined the Association for Computing Machinery at KU and found myself motivated enough to participate in building a community of engineers and nerds. For the first time in a while, I felt that I was where I was supposed to be.
Unbeknownst to me, the decisions I made in those few short months would go on to shape, what feels like to me, the rest of my life.
I met Phillip Swope at a KU recruiting fair in late 2019, a recruiter for PayIt. I asked if I could message him after graduation about a full time position, to which he said "sure". When that time came in the Winter of 2020, I interviewed and joined PayIt, where I still work today.
My first four years at PayIt were spent fixing critical production issues, leading client-facing incidents, ideating and implementing internal tooling, and helping mentor and hire interns. Currently I'm working as a Software Engineer on the Outdoor Production Response team, rapidly identifying and resolving production issues for our clients to maintain go-live schedules.
I graduated and went to the University of Kansas, not knowing what a Software Engineer was or what I was going to do with my life. I started with my core credits by taking any class I found compelling. Film, Sociology(William G. Staples), Philsophy, Photography (Mike Sinclair, whom I have great respect for), and Geology all of which I look back on fondly. As time progressed, I needed to decide on a major.
In my second year, I googled "programming job security" and saw that it was a growing industry. With that, I enrolled in all my basic Computer Science classes for the next semster. They were extremely challenging, and I came very close to abandoning the program. The first day of the Engineering seminar class Clay Beabout sat down next to me and introduced himself. We quickly became friends and stuck by each others side throughout our degree. I credit to both him and Kaitlin O'Brien for keeping me from dropping out of the CS program.
I joined the Association for Computing Machinery at KU and found myself motivated enough to participate in building a community of engineers and nerds. For the first time in a while, I felt that I was where I was supposed to be.
Unbeknownst to me, the decisions I made in those few short months would go on to shape, what feels like to me, the rest of my life.
I met Phillip Swope at a KU recruiting fair in late 2019, a recruiter for PayIt. I asked if I could message him after graduation about a full time position, to which he said "sure". When that time came in the Winter of 2020, I interviewed and joined PayIt, where I still work today.
My first four years at PayIt were spent fixing critical production issues, leading client-facing incidents, ideating and implementing internal tooling, and helping mentor and hire interns. Currently I'm working as a Software Engineer on the Outdoor Production Response team, rapidly identifying and resolving production issues for our clients to maintain go-live schedules.