Greg Miller

Over his twenty-plus year career, Greg has demonstrated problem solving abilities across many aspects of software engineering, including front and backend development, managing software teams and complex, large-scale technical projects, and designing learning programs that set new software engineers up for success.

Work Experience

Senior Technical Product Manager

Software Builder Onboarding, Amazon.com (2019 – Present)

Responsible for overall strategy for the program, and collaborating with engineering and product teams in developing one-year and three-year plans.

Scaled up software engineer onboarding to over 25k new hires in 2021-22 by developing and launching a self-service technical training program that reduced ramp up time by 10 days.

Building this program required work across learning design, software development, audio/video creation and technical writing in collaboration with over 30 tenured engineers from around the company to create learning resources.

Software Development Manager

Developer Tools, Amazon.com (2013 - 2019)

Led the migration of Amazon’s company-wide internal change management system from a Remedy-based backend to a high-performance web service and front end. This enabled the company to scale the rate of planned work up to 250k changes per year. Also developed and taught a “Change Management Bar Raiser” workshop that has been delivered to 2.5K+ engineers across the company to date.

Software Development Engineer

Developer Tools, Amazon.com (2012 - 2013)

Introduced sprint planning functionality into Amazon’s internal issue/work tracking system, as well as features across the front and backend of several other internal tools for software developers.

Amazon Webstore, Amazon.com (2006-2010)

Work spanned the front and backend across large-scale distributed systems using several languages, and included a complex migration from a Perl-based framework to Java. Led efforts to improve testing coverage and reduce maintenance costs. Led cross-team development projects and implemented Scrum/Agile processes.

Activities

Podcast Creator and Producer (2016-Present)

Greg produces, co-hosts and engineers two podcasts: A bi-weekly podcast of original ambient music, and a monthly book club specializing in wild speculation about David Bowie’s reading habits.

Education

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA: : B.A. in English/Education, with a minor in Theology.