Jeremie Miller (born 1975) is the inventor of Jabber/XMPP technologies and was the primary developer of jabberd 1.0, the first XMPP server. He also wrote one of the very first XML parsers, in JavaScript. He began working on Jabber in 1998.
He began developing the software on his farm in Iowa. Later, he attended Iowa State University where he studied computer and electrical design. He broke off his studies early in 1995 to join an Internet startup company.
Miller is founder of Singly and currently working on the Locker Project and TeleHash projects and also acts in an advisory capacity on other startups.
In May 2007, he was also hired at Wikia to be technical lead for a project to create an open search engine called Wikia Search.[1]
He is from Cascade, Iowa where he lives with his wife and three sons.