Allie K. Miller

“As an engineering leader and CTO with over 20 years of ML experience, I have had the pleasure of working with hundreds of tech leaders. In our years together at AWS, Allie stood out as an exceptional AI leader in both product and business. Allie founded the ML for Startup & VC organization within AWS and built it into one of the most important businesses within the company with revenues more than doubling more than once. She helped create and influence several core AWS ML products and built key relationships with the world's top startups and investors. Many of us joined AWS because of what Allie had built. She is a visionary leader who can see the big picture and develop strategies to achieve her goals. She is a strong communicator who’s infectious positivity can inspire and motivate her team members. She is a results-oriented leader who is always looking for ways to improve. People love working with Allie. Her product skill matched with her strategic vision and wit consistently hone in on the most important criteria for success. She is a talented leader whose helps team achieve epic things. If you have the opportunity to work with (or for) her, I would highly recommend it.”

“Allie brings together technical acumen, product management expertise, and an ability to leverage scale (and the accompanying complexity) to deliver great outcomes for her teams. From our experience working on IBM Watson's Visual Recognition, and in my 20+ years of experience as a senior tech lead, Allie is a truly outstanding Product Leader. Allie led product development for computer vision at IBM Watson - from high level, annual product strategy (bridging large research and engineering orgs) to tactical decisions around particular user experiences, she was incredible at surfacing key customer insights and driving an engineering org towards what mattered most. Having a clear vision for the capabilities, development, and future of AI, she was regularly tapped to join VPs in "vision setting" meetings Allie is exceptionally good at collaborating - meeting people where they are at, uncovering shared goals which align teams, "speaking the language" of everyone she rallied and led-- be they a devops engineer, a CEO, a PhD ML researcher, sales, marketing, or a curious expo attendee . We collaborated on customized computer vision models, edge computing partnerships with Apple, and productionization of ML. Her deep interest and commitment to understanding the tech led her to ask questions and uncover opportunities that others missed. Allie worked with C-Suite execs and decision-makers at 200+ large-scale customers on computer vision solutions. In all, Allie managed one of the most complex and demanding workstreams at IBM Watson, delivering a cloud-based API serving the needs of many many users and pushing the boundaries of what is possible in computer vision. But beyond the technical attributes, what you really remember about a colleague is how they treat people around them on a daily basis. Allie took a personal interest in the success of everyone around her, was generous with her time to her mentees and the type of kind person that makes you proud to work somewhere. ”