# Miller Vaughan > Software Engineer @ Paces Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/miller ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Paces Jan 2023 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Kaiyo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States • Maintained and modernized two major Python/React applications - our flagship product (kaiyo.com) to enable the circular furniture economy; the company’s administrative site for inventory listings, logistics, and employee management. • Served as a primary developer and cross-department liaison for the redesign and launch of kaiyo.com’s new navigation and homepage with an in-house CMS and interaction tracking for customer insights. • Resided as the lead engineer for the Tech Issue Task Force, a group created to identify and address pain points from the weekly on-call rotation that helped decrease severe issue frequency over the year by 50%. • Designed and implemented an overhaul of the antiquated sitemap-generation software to now rely on ranked keywords and indexable URLs, contributing to a doubling of organic clicks to the site over a three month period. • Debugged and optimized inefficient SQLAlchemy queries; eliminated monthly timeouts that halted operations. ### Software Engineer @ Yoop Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States • Developed a secure and scalable application with a small team to centralize the live event market experience by replacing the traditional ticket model with unique encrypted tokens. • Designed, implemented, tested, and documented Java Spring APIs and services to streamline the event creation process for clients, enable flexible purchasing options for customers, and intelligently grant venue access to token holders both with and without internet connection. • Created and maintained backend infrastructure for multiple applications supporting in-person purchases at venue box offices using Square POS devices. • Leveraged caching and introduced denormalization to MySQL queries to efficiently provide sales, viewership, and inventory metrics to clients. • Expanded a Node.js application to synchronize multiple sources of error and static string translations for our platform’s supported languages. ### Senior Associate Software Developer @ United Technologies Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Brooklyn, New York • Developed on a machine learning platform used to predict and prevent aircraft engine failures before they occur. • Repaired and upgraded legacy code incompatible with modern technologies, including infrastructure to onboard new customers and support for the current version of ElasticSearch. • Implemented APIs to allow users to more efficiently run jobs in Airflow, as well as view configurations and environment settings across the distributed platform. • Automated testing for APIs used by platform interfaces; defined testing criteria to be enforced. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Bridevue Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ann Arbor, Michigan • Collaborated with an SEO consultant to increase internet traffic to the BrideVue website. • Exposed important information to web crawlers by converting text hidden in images to HTML content, incorporating metadata, and making webpages more accessible according to WCAG standards. • Created new webpages for community engagement, including a blog with educational articles and company updates. ### Software Development Intern @ United Technologies Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, NY • Implemented guided selling APIs for intelligent product recommendation e-commerce. • Contributed to a pilot website for direct-to-consumer smart building technology. • Aided in the development of mobile survey software to simplify technician maintenance. ### Software Engineering Intern @ r4 Technologies Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ridgefield, CT • Collaborated with engineers to fully automate business-oriented artificial intelligence software. • Developed price-monitoring software to decrease annual server expenditures by over $120,000. • Constructed an issue-based workflow system to organize company server use and allocation. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) - Computer Science; Program in the Environment University of Michigan Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 ### Ridgefield High School Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/miller-vaughan-064059135 --- Source: https://flows.cv/miller JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/miller/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-20