Sam Millar

Work History

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Temple

Cofounder & CTO (2022—)
Temple is a VC-backed, seed-stage startup revolutionising the way music artists and their teams engage with their fanbase. We’ve consolidated the essential tools for fan marketing into a single platform – think of us as the Salesforce for the music industry.

Mixcloud

Senior Software Engineer (2017—2022)
I delivered a range of projects, across a large spread of Mixcloud's product, and managed various teams including backend, data, infrastructure/devops and reporting.
As part of my role I was a member of the product leadership team – helping to shape the future direction of the product and wider company culture. I was also heavily involved in recruitment throughout my 5 years here.
Key projects included:
  • The launch of Mixcloud Live
  • The launch of Mixcloud Select
  • The migration to Kubernetes infrastructure
  • Design and delivery of a new analytics pipeline
  • A reporting system for compliance with record labels
  • Migration from Python 2 to Python 3
  • Migration from AngularJS to React

Chew

CTO (2015—2017)
I was responsible for the entire technology stack of this fast growing DJ video streaming platform. This included the design, development, iteration and scaling of a platform used to broadcast over 800,000 hours of content with millions of comments.
As part of my role I was a member of the product leadership team – helping to shape the future direction of the product and wider company culture. I was also heavily involved in recruitment throughout my 5 years here.
Key projects included:
  • Viewer to DJ tipping system
  • Development of a distributed RTMP streaming service for live streams
  • Adaptable video transcoding for VOD
  • Public REST API
  • Custom HTML5 video player
Chew was acquired by BandLab in 2017.

The Orchid Project

Summer Intern (2013 & 2014)
Two summers interning for researchers at Uni. Southampton, Uni. Oxford and Uni. Nottingham saw me take responsibility for the design and implmentation of various applications to enable their research.
My primary project, ProvStore, was a first of its kind repository that allows the storage, visualization and management of W3C provenance documents via both a web interface and REST API (all powered by a graph database).