Summary
Elijah Miller is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience designing and shipping high-scale distributed systems, analytics platforms, and synchronization protocols. Based in Indianapolis, he led work that scaled consumer products like Words with Friends and built Instrumental, a real-time analytics system handling 100k+ operations per second. His background spans full-stack product delivery—from payment systems and single-page business apps to mobile performance and deployment-focused architecture. As founder of Ready 13 and former partner at Fastest Forward, he combines hands-on coding with practical operational instincts that prioritize reliability and observability. Early roles in CMS and social web development gave him a long view of evolving web patterns and pragmatic feature design. Known for improving systems “up to 3x better than previous versions,” he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep distributed-computing expertise.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Informatics, BA, Informatics at Indiana University Bloomington
MS, Engineering Math and Computer Science, MS, Engineering Math and Computer Science at University of Louisville