Miller is from
Cascade, Iowa, and lives in
Denver, Colorado. Miller began developing software on his farm in
Iowa. He attended
Iowa State University where he studied computer and electrical design. He broke off his studies early in 1995 to join an Internet startup company. He began working on Jabber in 1998, and later released jabberd, the first implementation of an XMPP server, on January 4, 1999. He also wrote one of the first XML
parsers in
JavaScript. Variations of XMPP based on Miller's work have since been adopted by
WhatsApp,
Kik Messenger, and
Zoom (software). In May 2007, he was hired at
Wikia to be technical lead for a project to create an open
search engine called
Wikia Search. Miller co-founded a company called Singly in 2010, which announced the
Locker Project in 2011 and
TeleHash projects. Singly was acquired by
Appcelerator in August 2013 on undisclosed terms. == References ==