Jameson Miller
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJameson Miller is a Principal Software Engineer with 13+ years at Microsoft specializing in scalable developer tooling, AI frameworks, and large-repo Git infrastructure. He has deep systems and back-end expertise demonstrated by contributions to core Git projects (git, libgit2, LibGit2Sharp) and work on Virtual File System for Git and Scalar to enable enterprise-scale repositories. At Microsoft he progressed from source-control integration in Visual Studio to leading AI frameworks engineering, blending low-level performance optimizations with automation and release engineering. His open-source patches range from fixing Windows symlink and refspec edge cases to improving git status performance and adding fetch/push progress reporting—work that improves tooling used by millions. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs an MS in Computer Science from UNC Chapel Hill with a knack for resolving subtle concurrency, memory, and installer issues that often go unnoticed until they break at scale.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (47)
git10
libgit210
c-language10
windows10
net10
memory-management10
dotnet-new10
bash10
dotnet10
internals10
c1110
cicd10
c1710
libgit2sharp10
asp-net10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/libgit2sharp
Oct 2012 - Nov 2015
Git + .NET = ❤
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:84 commits, 5 PRs, 73 pushes in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jameson primarily contributed to the core of the LibGit2Sharp library by updating internal proxy and native methods to prepare for the implementation of fetch operations. Their changes also involved adding support for fetching from remotes, downloading all tags, and reporting fetch progress through callbacks. They modified existing code to include new functionality like git clean.
dotnetlibgit2version-controldotnet-core
microsoft/VFSForGit
Aug 2018 - Sep 2019
Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:230 commits, 181 PRs, 96 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jameson primarily focused on enhancing the `vfsforgit` repository by addressing critical issues and improving overall code quality. Their contributions include fixing a bug in the shared lock implementation and resolving a potential memory management issue in the virtual file system hook by ensuring proper string null termination. Additionally, the user refactored the named pipe communication protocol to handle more complex data. They also addressed race conditions in the test setup and fixed an installer issue to indicate install version.
virtual-file-system
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