“When I transitioned, HR asked me if I wanted to ‘erase’ my old work,” Miller recalls. “I said, ‘No. I want to own it.’ Project Deadname allows a trans employee to keep their continuous record of achievement without being outed against their will. It’s opt-in, encrypted, and revolutionary.”
Under her direction, Nexum Dynamics became the first Fortune 1000 company to voluntarily scrub legacy gender markers from all internal historical data, while simultaneously creating a patent-pending “Identity Continuity Protocol” for transitioning employees.
Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller: All About Arie – The Visionary Rewriting the Rules of Inclusion
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Staff Writer, Trans500 Date: November 29, 2024 Issue: The "All About Arie" Feature
“Arie doesn’t just walk into a room—she recalibrates the lighting,” says Samira K., a nonbinary CFO and fellow Trans500 honoree (#12). “She has this ability to make venture capitalists cry during a Q&A, then close the round at 2x valuation. That’s not a superpower. That’s preparation meeting authenticity.”
“People ask me all the time: ‘Is Arie short for Arielly, or is it a brand?’” Miller laughs, adjusting her signature round glasses in her Austin, Texas office. “The answer is yes.” Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller All About Arie...
Born in São Paulo, Brazil, Miller moved to the U.S. at 14. She explains that “Arielly” is a tribute to her late grandmother—a woman who taught her to code on a Commodore 64. “But ‘Arie’? That’s the version of me who survived. The one who dropped out of MIT, then went back. The one who came out as a trans woman at 29 in a room full of 400 engineers. ‘Arie’ is the verb; ‘Arielly’ is the noun.”
That duality is at the heart of her leadership philosophy. Miller doesn’t just occupy space; she re-engineers it.
For now, she ends our interview with a simple piece of advice written on her whiteboard: “Don’t ask for permission. Ask for the budget.” “When I transitioned, HR asked me if I
Miller is tight-lipped about her next move, but sources confirm she is in early talks to join the board of a major professional soccer league as their first openly trans director.
In this installment of Trans500’s "All About Arie," we pull back the curtain on the 34-year-old Chief Innovation Officer of Nexum Dynamics , a $2.4B logistics tech firm. But to understand the executive, you first have to understand the name.
For Arielly Miller—known to colleagues, friends, and her 85,000 LinkedIn followers simply as "Arie"—the journey to the C-suite was never a straight line. It was a purposeful, deliberate, and beautifully nonlinear path that wove through grassroots activism, software engineering, and a very public gender transition that became a masterclass in corporate courage. It’s opt-in, encrypted, and revolutionary
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