SOFTWARE ENGINEER · FOUNDER · SEATTLE
Chris Miles
I'm a senior engineer at brightwheel, the platform preschools and childcare centers run on. I founded Anomaly Labs, where I designed and shipped parry, an AI messaging assistant.
Work
brightwheel
Product engineering for the schools and families who use it every day.
02parry
AI messaging assistant that drafts replies in any tone. Designed, built, and shipped solo. On the App Store now.
03Kode Health
Core engineer on their audit application, building the access control, automated audit pipeline, and real-time updates behind its launch.
04Orange Barrel Media
Built the company's first real-time WebSocket feature for IKE Smart City's kiosks, and the gateway-service backend behind their wayfinding apps.
I'm a software engineer who builds things end to end, from the database to the design.
I taught myself to code in 2020, online and from books, then made it real at a bootcamp in Columbus. I spent three years on real-time software for interactive city kiosks at Orange Barrel Media, then built core systems for Kode Health's medical-coding audit platform through its launch. Now I'm at brightwheel.
Anomaly Labs is my own studio. Through it, I took parry from a first idea all the way to the App Store.
I work mostly in Ruby on Rails and React, and I build AI-natively, orchestrating coding agents and my own tooling. I'm based in the Seattle area. When I'm not building, I'm hiking with my wife, lifting, gaming, or planning the next trip.
Ruby on Rails · React / React Native · TypeScript · PostgreSQL · AWS (Bedrock, IAM, S3) · WebSockets · LLM integration · MCP / agent tooling · AI-native development
Get in touch
I'm always glad to connect, whether you're building something interesting or just want to talk shop.