Clifford Kamppari-Miller

I’m a seasoned full-stack developer with a product-driven mindset, currently exploring a transition into product ownership and management. My experience spans the development of user-focused AI applications, where I’ve shaped product direction through a holistic understanding of both technical and business needs. I’m passionate about designing software solutions that solve real-world problems and create meaningful user experiences.

Senior Full Stack Engineer 
Elemental Cognition, Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Elemental Cognition was an AI startup focused on introducing reasoning into LLM-driven applications.

Worked with product management and designers to develop high priority features for a retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graph research application.

Implemented and utilized user analytics to identify valuable opportunities for product improvement.

Worked with product management and designers to improve quality-of-life features for a neuro-symbolic constraint solving IDE.

Aided in the testing and developer experience assessment for APIs.

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Jaguar Land Rover, Oct 2021 - May 2023
Jaguar Land Rover is a multinational automobile manufacturer which produces luxury vehicles and SUVs.

Worked with product management and UX teams to develop Alexa Skill features for remote automobile control.

Prototyped a chat application using LLMs and retrieval-augmented generation to allow users to ask unstructured questions about their vehicles.

Participated in internal UX research.

Senior Full Stack Engineer
Bankhead Technologies, Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Bankhead Technologies is a software and IT agency which serves small and medium businesses.

Worked with system architects and domain experts to develop micro-services and delivery pipelines for Elemental Cognition's natural language understanding platform.

Developed features and data processing pipelines for client applications.

Worked with product management to design and develop high priority APIs and frontend features for PolicyPath's real-time COVID policy status tracking and management dashboard.

Solved data aggregation and real-time tracking issues which allowed PolicyPath's dashboard to track 10s of thousands of active users per tenant.
 

Freelance Full Stack Engineer
BrightFlood, Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
BrightFlood is my own company focused on freelance web design and development services.

Worked with system architects and domain experts to develop micro-services and delivery pipelines for Elemental Cognition's natural language understanding platform.

Developed features and data processing pipelines for client applications.

Worked with product management to design and develop high priority APIs and frontend features for PolicyPath's real-time COVID policy status tracking and management dashboard.

Solved data aggregation and real-time tracking issues which allowed PolicyPath's dashboard to track 10s of thousands of active users per tenant.
 

Lead QA Engineer
Transim Technology, Oct 2012 - Dec 2016
Transim is an agency focused on web engineering solutions for electrical engineers and component suppliers.

Directed QA operations towards test-driven development for a large legacy codebase.

Evaluated development processes and drove improvements to effectively produce highly reliable software.

Implemented and managed continuous integration for build and test automation.

Coached developers on test automation and refactoring. 

Drove efforts to adopt UX processes.

Lead a small QA team in a fast-paced, agency environment.

Bachelor of Science, Economics
Portland State University

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance