Curriculum Vitae

1 January 0001 · 4 min read

Melbourne, Australia · me@dje.li · linkedin.com/in/avimiller · github.com/Djelibeybi

Product manager with seventeen years across the Linux and cloud ecosystem, now building and shipping a consumer product end to end. At Oracle I delivered kernel performance gains behind world-record benchmarks and shaped roadmaps across OS management, automation and cloud-native platforms. I have been the sole code owner of the LIFX integration in Home Assistant core since 2022, and I maintain two of the three Python libraries it depends on. In 2026 I designed, built and released Colour Within, a unique colour-by-numbers iPad app on the App Store.

Colour Within

Founder & Product Lead · February 2026 – present

A colour-by-numbers iPad app for adults, free on the App Store with an optional ad-free subscription. I own every function: product strategy and design, native iOS and Python backend engineering, the artwork pipeline, cloud infrastructure, brand and go-to-market.

• Shipped to the App Store within five months of the first line of code. Rebuilt the client natively in Swift and Metal after a Flutter implementation could not render real artwork responsively, then built the rest of the stack solo: a Python 3.14 FastAPI backend and a Tauri desktop authoring tool.
• Scaled artwork production from hand-made one-offs to an automated pipeline, pairing generative AI art with a fourteen-stage OpenCV and vectorisation pipeline. Over 300 bundles published from a bank of 2,355 subjects.
• Lifted the artwork publish rate past 90% with calibrated per-region quality signals and vision-model checks at the generation stage, which let the final review gate be retired entirely.
• Scheduled daily releases against more than 25 religious and secular observances worldwide, with category rotation and no-repeat rules.
• Secured early acceptance of the Colour Within trade mark from IP Australia and ran go-to-market single-handedly.

Open Source

Maintainer, Home Assistant LIFX integration · 2022 – present

• Sole code owner of the LIFX integration in Home Assistant core, covering local network control for the full LIFX product range.
• Maintainer of two of the three Python libraries it pins: aiolifx, the LAN protocol library, as co-maintainer alongside its original author, and aiolifx-themes, which I wrote and maintain on my own.
• Wrote lifx-async to consolidate all three of those dependencies into one typed async library, and lifx-emulator to test it without hardware. LedFx has migrated onto it; the Home Assistant pull request is under review.
• Wrote the Oracle Cloud DNS provider for four ACME and DNS toolchains across shell, Go and Python: acme.sh, libdns and its Caddy module, Lexicon, and certbot-dns-oraclecloud.

Oracle

Senior Product Manager, Oracle Linux · July 2024 – September 2025

Held product management responsibility for OS Management Hub, Oracle Linux Automation Manager and Engine. A senior individual-contributor role, as was the 2019 to 2021 position: full product ownership without a reporting line.

• Released the official Oracle Linux container image on Docker Hub, meeting enterprise certification and support standards.
• Drove adoption of the new cloud-based architecture past forecast with hands-on labs and developer-ready images that simplified migration.

Open Source Developer Advocate · February 2021 – July 2024

• Grew engagement with the open source developer community by integrating Oracle Cloud with Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Pulumi and Vagrant.
• Simplified deployment of complex product stacks by creating and maintaining the official GitHub repository of container image definitions.

Senior Manager, Oracle Linux and Virtualisation Product Management · January 2019 – February 2021 Product Management Director · November 2013 – December 2018

Directed Oracle Linux product management across the Cloud Native Environment, the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, and related solutions including Spacewalk, Docker, Kubernetes and the Oracle SPARC platform.

• Delivered kernel performance improvements that enabled world-record database, middleware and benchmark results on commodity-grade hardware.
• Developed migration solutions that let large enterprises adopt a full Oracle stack.

Earlier

• Online Development Manager and On-Air Presenter, JOY 94.9 · 2013–2016
• Principal Program Manager, Oracle · 2011–2013
• Principal Sales Consultant, Linux and Virtualization, Oracle · 2008–2011

Also

Anne Hamilton Award for Volunteering Excellence. Conference presentations on Oracle VM, Puppet, Spacewalk and Ksplice, and the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel. Certified trainer.