Brendan Miller
Principal Engineer
Harvard Applied Technology Lab
Brendan A. Miller is a technologist with a civic mission, applying private- and public-sector experience to innovate how people and AI agents establish trust and collaborate online. He is Principal Engineer at the Applied Technology Lab at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and, jointly, at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center. His work at the Applied Technology Lab includes Keyring, an open-source reference implementation built on peer-to-peer relationship credentials and graduated trust. He is an editor of the Decentralized Trust Graph specifications at the Trust over IP Foundation. Previously, he served as Chief Software Architect for Fortune 500 clients and directed the Office of Science and Technology at the New Mexico Economic Development Department, where he authored state strategies for technology commercialization. He holds an Sc.B. in Mathematics-Computer Science from Brown University, an MPA from Harvard University, and an MBA from MIT.