# Ming-Ki C.

> Backend Software Engineer ▫️ PhD

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mingki

https://www.mingkichong.net/ 

● Designing and building easy-to-use APIs and scaling backend services
● PhD in Computer Science (specialized in understanding users and usability)

my first name is "Ming Ki". HTTP 404 if you get my name wrong 😓

backend software engineer. frontend == 🙅‍♂️ (or just vibe code nowadays)

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=SGrCJqMAAAAJ

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - API @ Conviva
Jan 2021 – Jan 2026
Tech lead of the API team
- everything related to public API and MCP

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ironclad, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
part of the software engineering team that build integration features, such as APIs, Salesforce data sync, webhooks, optimizing backend services, and occasionally some react UI components.

• build stuff
• understand stuff
• scale stuff
• design stuff
• try to break stuff (not on production)
• fix stuff
• test stuff
• integrate stuff
• do fun stuff
• a lot of API stuff
• all backend stuff

### Software Development Team Lead @ Booking.com
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
Managed 2 teams in Application Security: Detection and Remediation
The teams implement methods to detect anomalies and potential security exploits, and build features to mitigate vulnerabilities, such as XSS, SQL injection, and more.

Prior to security, I managed a team of software engineers in Booking.com Connectivity. The team was responsible for ContentAPI, Connectivity Portal (https://connect.booking.com), and the system architecture for acquisition of hotels and properties data.

### Software Developer (Backend) @ Booking.com
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Amsterdam Area, Netherlands
I worked on:
 
ContentAPI: my team successfully launched Booking's Connectivity Content API. Developed numerous new APIs and internal tools for Booking.com Connectivity. Introduced a new customer-centric API development process (user research plus API design) to the team, and it is now the team's core development strategy.

Brotli Compression: implemented a feature that compresses 10% more data efficient than gzip for Booking.com's WWW pages (go to www.booking.com; the HTTP response header "Content-Encoding: br" is the result of this feature).

Code Refactoring: broke down a huge legacy monolithic module that builds new properties in Booking.com into smaller modules, with an intention to mirgrate them to microservices.

Tablet www: implemented numerous A/B test experiments and successful full-on features for Booking's tablet website.

Mentorship: mentored 4 graduate developers who successfully got promoted to core roles.

### Senior Research Associate @ The University of Glasgow
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Glasgow, United Kingdom
Project: Software Populations

Created "Where's It?" Android app

### Senior Research Associate @ Lancaster University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Lancaster, United Kingdom
Project: Digital Brain Switch


## Education
### PhD in Computer Science (Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing)
Lancaster University

### M.Sc. (by dissertation) in Computer Science
University of Cape Town

### B.Sc. (Hons) in Computer Science
University of Cape Town

### St Stithians College, South Africa


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mingkichong
- Website: https://mingkichong.github.io

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mingki/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22