Owen Miller

Full-stack Principal Software Engineer in Melbourne; founder of the Underground Foundation

Hot air balloons drifting beneath a cloud
Owen Miller, smiling

About

G'day, I'm Owen, a software engineer in the world's best city.

My software experience has covered back-end, front-end, blockchain smart contracts and dev-ops.

While I have mostly been an individual contributor, I have worn hats as a founder and as a CTO / team lead.

I've been guided by an interest in applying computational thought to our society and raising the expectations of what society should expect from software − whether that's in improving the distributed systems of the Amazon.com recommendations, or taking a new startup from zero to production.

Technologies I use

I'm always learning new things, but these are some of the technologies I've worked with in the last few years:

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Tours

Everyone's been to a café; everyone's been to a gallery; but do you get to hang out with real locals?

This is why I started the Hanging Gardens of Brunswick: it's a chance to visit a beautiful balcony garden and hang out with Brunswick locals, chatting about the famous neighbourhood or whatever else comes to mind − it's an authentic chat, not a scripted tour.

If you're a tourist who would like to get a taste of what no guidebook can capture, then make sure to book a slot.

Hanging baskets of native plants beneath a steel grate

Podcast

I co-host My First Party, a political podcast aimed at inspiring listeners to get involved in grassroots political campaigns and improve their nation, whatever that looks like for them (I avoid letting the show become simply a sermon for my own views).

Reach out if you have ideas for the show!

Owen laughing beside a podcast microphone

Underground Foundation

I am the founder of the Underground Foundation, an organisation for enabling underground & grassroots political movements. The current projects are:

  • underground-crm: an application for a membership database, rich-text editing of websites, and bulk email. Very comparable to NationBuilder, but open-source and much lower cost.
  • underground-ballots: software for ranking candidates in an electorate and rendering how-to-vote PDFs.
The wombat mascot for the Underground Foundation

Contact me

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