Software Engineer — Ink Android Jetpack Library at Google — Cambridge, MA, 2022–2025
Developed color handling, latency metrics API, and animation effects.
Wrote documentation on Android Jetpack development and digital color. Taught a seminar on computer graphics.
Software Engineer — YouTube Live Video Infrastructure at Google — Cambridge, MA, 2017–2022
Led the infrastructure launches of the Go Live Together product and RTMPS streaming video ingestion. Collaborated with eng, SRE, product, and UX teams across Google. Debugged WebRTC header issues and stitched modern RPC APIs into legacy code with a conflicting concurrency model.
In-house data analytics specialist and member of engineering oncall rotation.
Resolved topological bugs in 3D segmentation software for MRIs, allowing client researchers to measure cartilage thickness more precisely in pre-clinical trials.
Built an extensible GUI application to allow non-programmers to use a custom software pipeline for MRI data processing.
Instructor at Phillips Academy(Math/Stats/CS Dept) — Andover, MA, 2015–2016
Designed and taught an elective: Medical Image Analysis. Significantly redesigned Data Structures.
Advised five student research assistants for two trimesters; advised three teams of seniors on two-trimester capstone projects; academic advisor for fourteen majors for one year. Managed undergraduate graders for most courses.
Designed a technique for model optimization in infinite-dimensional configuration spaces with both discrete and continuous parameters, supporting metaheuristics like simulated annealing.
Created a mathematical model of brain structure and a GPU-accelerated algorithm to render synthetic MRI images from it.
Collaborated across disciplines with scientists in Providence, RI; St. Louis, MO; Edinburgh; and Cape Town.
Made frequent presentations, including over 25 one-hour talks given to my research group and others.
Developed research software on Linux and Mac OS X in C/C++, GLSL, Python/Numpy, Matlab, and Bash.
J. Miles.“Fibbly Math Patterns”,a one-hour classroom workshop for elementary- and middle-school–age students. Facilitated ten sessions total in Damariscotta, ME and Philadelphia, PA. November 2011 – January 2013.