Cliff Kamppari-Miller
Cliff Kamppari-Miller
Senior Engineer with a Product Focus
Senior Engineer with a Product Focus
about
about
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.
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.
technologies
technologies
React
Javascript and Typescript
Python
AWS and GCP
LLMs and Prompting
NoSQL and SQL
Figma
React
Javascript and Typescript
Python
AWS and GCP
LLMs and Prompting
NoSQL and SQL
Figma
strengths
strengths
problem solving
strategic thinking
ideation
empathy
adaptability
problem solving
strategic thinking
ideation
empathy
adaptability
hobbies
hobbies
watercolor painting
tabletop roleplaying
modular synthesis
camping
watercolor painting
tabletop roleplaying
modular synthesis
camping
education
education
Bachelor of Science, Economics
Portland State University
Bachelor of Science, Economics
Portland State University
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance
work experience
work experience
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Elemental Cognition
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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
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
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
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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
Jaguar Land Rover
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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
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
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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
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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.
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.
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.
selected projects
selected projects
Threda
Threda
Personal, Nov 2024 - Current
Personal
Nov 2024 - Current
I’m currently designing and building a brain-dumping application inspired by fleeting notes from the Zettelkasten note-taking system. Uses LLMs to analyze, classify, and connect notes.
I’m currently designing and building a brain-dumping application inspired by fleeting notes from the Zettelkasten note-taking system. Uses LLMs to analyze, classify, and connect notes.
React
React
Tailwind
Tailwind
Convex
Convex
LangChain
LangChain
Neo4j
Neo4j
Figma
Figma
Cogent
Cogent
Elemental Cognition, Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Elemental Cognition
Jul 2024 - Aug 2024
Aided in testing and usability improvements to a neuro-symbolic development platform which allowed users to define a set of problem parameters and generate constraint-solving applications.
Aided in testing and usability improvements to a neuro-symbolic development platform which allowed users to define a set of problem parameters and generate constraint-solving applications.
React
React
Tailwind
Tailwind
GraphQL
GraphQL
Figma
Figma
Cora
Cora
Elemental Cognition, Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Elemental Cognition
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Design and development for a retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graph driven research application.
Design and development for a retrieval-augmented generation and knowledge graph driven research application.
React
React
Tailwind
Tailwind
Jotai
Jotai
ReactFlow
ReactFlow
Figma
Figma
JLR Assistant Prototype
JLR Assistant Prototype
Jaguar Land Rover, Apr 2023
Jaguar Land Rover
Apr 2023
Exploratory project to ingest vehicle manuals and allow users to ask questions about their vehicle. Manual pages were broken down and stored in a vector database to support retrieval-augmented generation.
Exploratory project to ingest vehicle manuals and allow users to ask questions about their vehicle. Manual pages were broken down and stored in a vector database to support retrieval-augmented generation.
Svelte
Svelte
Tailwind
Tailwind
LangChain
LangChain
Pinecone
Pinecone
Prompt Journey
Prompt Journey
Personal, Mar 2023 - May 2023
Personal
Mar 2023 - May 2023
Exploratory project to experiment with spacial and LLM-assisted methods of generating and refining image prompts, specifically for Midjourney.
Exploratory project to experiment with spacial and LLM-assisted methods of generating and refining image prompts, specifically for Midjourney.
Svelte
Svelte
Tailwind
Tailwind
LangChain
LangChain
JLR Alexa Skills
JLR Alexa Skills
Jaguar Land Rover, Oct 2021 - May 2023
Jaguar Land Rover
Oct 2021 - May 2023
Created Skills for remote access and control of basic vehicle functions. For example locking and unlocking, enabling Guardian mode, or checking vehicle status.
Created Skills for remote access and control of basic vehicle functions. For example locking and unlocking, enabling Guardian mode, or checking vehicle status.
Alexa Skills
Alexa Skills
DynamoDB
DynamoDB
Lambda
Lambda
NodeJS
NodeJS
Policypath
Policypath
Elemental Cognition (contract), Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Elemental Cognition (contract)
Aug 2020 - Sep 2021
Dashboard design and development for a COVID policy compliance system. This application was used by the NFL during the 2021 Super Bowl and supported real-time updates for over 50,000 active users.
Dashboard design and development for a COVID policy compliance system. This application was used by the NFL during the 2021 Super Bowl and supported real-time updates for over 50,000 active users.
React
React
Tailwind
Tailwind
RxJS
RxJS
Firebase
Firebase
Cloud Functions
Cloud Functions
ML Training Configuration
ML Training Configuration
Converseon (contract), Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Converseon (contract)
Nov 2020 - Feb 2021
Lead frontend development for a redesign of Converseon’s platform and how users manage and configure machine learning models. Used PegJS to create a parser for model configuration. Provided additional design consulting.
Lead frontend development for a redesign of Converseon’s platform and how users manage and configure machine learning models. Used PegJS to create a parser for model configuration. Provided additional design consulting.
React
React
PegJS
PegJS
Styled Components
Styled Components
Web Crawler and Search Experiences
Web Crawler and Search Experiences
Solosegment (contract), Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Solosegment (contract)
Feb 2018 - Feb 2021
Architected and deployed a web crawler which ingested unstructured data from client websites. This data was used to improve search on client websites using custom React search experiences.
Architected and deployed a web crawler which ingested unstructured data from client websites. This data was used to improve search on client websites using custom React search experiences.
React
React
NodeJS
NodeJS
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch
SQS
SQS
Lambda
Lambda
En Game Air
En Game Air
Personal, Jun - 2017 - Oct 2021
Personal
Jun 2017 - Oct 2021
An art project where I wandered around video game landscapes and painted the scenery. Art from this project was shown at Penticton Art Gallery in 2020 which explored paintings of the digital landscape.
An art project where I wandered around video game landscapes and painted the scenery. Art from this project was shown at Penticton Art Gallery in 2020 which explored paintings of the digital landscape.
Watercolor
Watercolor