Ethan Miller · Analytics & engineering · Schenectady, NY
My titles have said business analyst, software engineer, and director of analytics, but the job’s always been the same: someone has a problem, and I build whatever solves it. Sometimes that’s the warehouse underneath, sometimes the model that makes the data mean something, sometimes the application it all gets delivered in. Usually it’s all three, carried the whole way from raw data to a working product someone actually uses.
The projects below are independent work, built on public data and running on hardware I manage myself. Each one started as a real question and ended as a running application.
Selected work — independent, public data
An in-game analytics platform for college basketball coaching staffs. It parses the live play-by-play feed into possessions, lineups, and running plus/minus while the game runs, and coaches log structured notes against the action as it happens. It works on the two stat feeds that between them carry nearly all of Division I and II.
Every 2025-26 ACC men's basketball game in one system: play-by-play scraped and validated, lineup and possession analytics, shot charts, win probability, and full-game broadcast video keyed to the game clock.
Nine seasons of college basketball in one warehouse: 72,593 games, 31 million plays, every Division II program's roster, staff, and player profiles. Built to answer a transfer portal question that no public dataset could.
A LinkedIn post shared free StatsBomb event data for the 2023 NWSL season. By breakfast a Postgres warehouse, an API, and a dashboard were running; by the end of the day the database held thirteen women's competition-seasons.
A Postgres warehouse over five seasons of public NFL data, and a Django application that turns it into decision tools: an empirical draft-pick value chart, a player availability model, and a fourth-down decision grader.
Experience
Senior Business Analyst. The analytics function for an NFL franchise: the department's only analyst, reporting to the VP of Strategy and Analytics, with work that reaches the club president.
Software Engineer. The engineering seat at a consumer solar marketplace: internal tools, the commission engine, and the company's Looker reporting system.
Business Analyst. Ticket sales analytics for an NFL club, from daily executive reporting to the BI platform itself.
Director of Analytics, Graduate Assistant. Basketball operations from the inside, reporting directly to the head coach, with a 2023–24 return that ran alongside the Commanders job.