Summary
Mike Miller is a seasoned software founder and principal engineer, currently owner of 6502 Studios with a long track record of delivering robust backend and cloud-native systems. He designs pragmatic, data-first architectures primarily in Clojure, balancing simplicity with performance across distributed environments. His background spans startups and enterprises, from building cloud-based payment processing at Omnyway and OCR pipelines at Informed.IQ to designing a scalable RESTful graph database at Intuit. He co-founded 9e10 to create an SSL certificate watchdog and has contributed to Lisp-family ecosystems, including extensive work with Common Lisp and Scheme. Based in Sarasota, Florida, he combines hands-on engineering depth with a collaborative, client-focused delivery approach—and yes, he enjoys disc golf.
14 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer