Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller All About Arie... (2026 Release)

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.”

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.” Trans500 24 11 29 Arielly Miller All About Arie...

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. For now, she ends our interview with a

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. She explains that “Arielly” is a tribute to