Experience

Rust Foundation

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Distinguished Advisor

  • Jan 2023 - Present

  Providing expertise, guidance, and advice on Open Source Software Security, Policy, Management, and Strategy.

• Founding Chair

  • Dec 2020 - Dec 2022

  The Rust Foundation is a non-profit trade organization created as a partnership between Amazon Web Services, Inc (AWS), Google, Huawei, Microsoft, and Mozilla in late 2020 and now representing forty different corporations. The Rust Foundation’s mission is to support the sustainability and growth of the Rust technology and community, and it acts as the legal entity for the Rust open source projects holding assets like trademarks. The impact of the Rust Foundation in its first two years has already been substantial, growing the number of Rust developers by almost 500% to nearly 3 million people worldwide. Show less


State of Open Conference
• Advisory Board Member

  • Nov 2022 - Present


Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Rust Open Source

  • Aug 2016 - Dec 2022

  Head of Rust Open Source (12/20-12/22): Funded, hired, and managed the first Amazon open source team and led the cross-industry collaboration of hundreds of contributors, growing the Rust developer community 5x in two years, and making it the fastest growing programming language. • Persuaded Amazon executives to fund the Rust open source org building on my successful experiments hiring open source leaders to deliver results for my AWS Cryptography organization • Hired and led a team of leaders managing a cross-industry organization of hundreds of developers • Integrated SDLC best practices into Rust open source team management, improving recruitment and retention Head of Encryption in Transit (08/19-12/20): Built and led the cross functional team of software, security, and data engineers responsible for encryption in transit across Amazon • Hired and led a team of senior and principal engineers from different disciplines • Delivered innovative cryptographic and network auditing software Principal / Director Technical Program Management (08/16-08/19): Stepped into large, strategic, cross organizational projects that were failing and delivered successful results for our company and customers. • Designed the experience and technical system for globalization/localization of Amazon Web Services (AWS) • Launched teen shopping for Amazon.com • Launched the Machine Learning category of software on AWS Marketplace Show less



GEICO

• United States
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Engineering Manager

  • Nov 2012 - Aug 2016

  Defined, created, and operated mechanisms for organizational efficiency and visibility across more than 20 teams rewriting the auto insurance service application using .NET and Azure. • Hired and directed platform teams supporting the collaboration of more than 200 engineers and analysts • Grew the development team 2x in 6 months while increasing delivery by 10x Defined, created, and operated mechanisms for organizational efficiency and visibility across more than 20 teams rewriting the auto insurance service application using .NET and Azure. • Hired and directed platform teams supporting the collaboration of more than 200 engineers and analysts • Grew the development team 2x in 6 months while increasing delivery by 10x



Rob Miller (Political) Consulting

• Owner / Founder / Architect

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2016

  Designed and developed data collection automation from public records and social media to improve efficacy of fundraising staffs for state and national political candidates and policy organizations (like PACs). Designed and developed data collection automation from public records and social media to improve efficacy of fundraising staffs for state and national political candidates and policy organizations (like PACs).



University of South Carolina Beaufort

• United States
• Higher Education
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Faculty

  • Jan 2010 - May 2012

  Curriculum development and instruction in statistics and math. Curriculum development and instruction in statistics and math.



College of Charleston, Office of Institutional Research

• Data & Application Analyst

  • Apr 2011 - Feb 2012

  Audited 8,000 SAS programs to recommend changes to achieve best practices, wrote programs to automate changes, and advised department manager on process improvement recommendations related to programming, configuration management, and team development. Audited 8,000 SAS programs to recommend changes to achieve best practices, wrote programs to automate changes, and advised department manager on process improvement recommendations related to programming, configuration management, and team development.



Beaufort Memorial Hospital

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Statistician

  • Sep 2011 - Nov 2011

  Statistical analysis of data from the hospital’s blood conservation program. Statistical analysis of data from the hospital’s blood conservation program.



The Recruit's Depot

• Founder / Owner / Operator

  • Mar 2007 - Dec 2010

  Created and operated a “click and mortar” retail store Created and operated a “click and mortar” retail store



Rob Miller for Congress

• Political Organizations

• Owner / Architect

  • Mar 2010 - Nov 2010

  Designed and implemented a program to enhance existing data records with characteristics like key contributor issues, likelihood of contribution, and predictions for contribution amounts. The result doubled daily fundraising results totaling more than $3MM and enabled the campaign to achieve media saturation. Designed and implemented a program to enhance existing data records with characteristics like key contributor issues, likelihood of contribution, and predictions for contribution amounts. The result doubled daily fundraising results totaling more than $3MM and enabled the campaign to achieve media saturation.



CSC (now DXC)

• Principal Engineer

  • Nov 1997 - Mar 2005

  Technical leadership for engineering teams delivering core implementations and customizations of the enterprise Property & Casualty insurance system S3+. Coding in cases where expertise was required. Technical leadership for engineering teams delivering core implementations and customizations of the enterprise Property & Casualty insurance system S3+. Coding in cases where expertise was required.



Object Intelligence

• United States
• Software Development

• Senior Consultant

  • Oct 1996 - Oct 1997

  Smalltalk engineer for Brooklyn Union Gas and Chubb Insurance Smalltalk engineer for Brooklyn Union Gas and Chubb Insurance



Policy Management Systems Corporation

• Programmer Analyst

  • Feb 1996 - Oct 1996

  Smalltalk engineer for insurance tech modernization Smalltalk engineer for insurance tech modernization



College of Charleston

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Assistant

  • Jan 1995 - Dec 1995

  Graduate Assistant: SAS programmer Graduate Assistant: SAS programmer