# Ming Slogar > Software Engineer @ Block Location: Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/mingslogar Hi! I'm a backend software developer originally from upstate New York but currently working out of my home office in the Salt Lake valley. If my Slack light is off you might find me playing fetch with our three-year-old rescue German Shepherd mix, backpacking, skiing, or mountain biking the Wasatch Front, or making something out of wood that looked a lot easier on Pinterest. I'm passionate about making a tangible difference in society, especially if I'm helping to engineer a more equitable and ethical future for our economy or the environment. If you're a nonprofit with a great cause, I might even help you out for an energetic elbow-bump. If any of this excites you, let's connect! ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Block Jan 2026 – Present | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Bringing reliability practices closer to engineers by building out frameworks for end-to-end testing and integrating these tests with development workflows. Working to zero out the number of incidents caused by under-tested code and workflows reaching production :scream: We're hiring! → block.xyz/careers ### Senior Site Reliability Engineer @ Block Jan 2022 – Jan 2026 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Built out load-testing, chaos-injection, and monitoring tooling to improve the reliability of Block's existing systems and ensure new systems could seamlessly replace our largest monoliths as we decomposed them into more-maintainable services. Helped ensure that large system shifts from on-prem to AWS went smoothly and protected business continuity. (I.e. I gently broke critical business infrastructure in production and hoped customers didn't notice.) Semi-related: Kotlin became my favorite language, also k9s is a fabulous Kubernetes CLI #notsponsored ### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Led a distributed team focused on architecting the Node.js frameworks and gRPC interfaces that 70 engineers built on to support integrations with 12,000+ data partners. We partnered with dev teams across the org to modify service contracts and inter-service communication channels for our most business-critical workflows with (hopefully) zero downtime (but yes, I probably was to blame for those times when your fave fintech app stopped working... 😬). ### Senior Software Engineer @ Plaid Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States Led a team which was primarily responsible for building and scaling tooling and services to support continued development of Plaid's integrations with financial institutions in ways that minimized touchpoints with sensitive information and promoted engineer velocity. Had a summer from hell where I sent myself 13,000 notifications as my team and I attempted to dial in an alerting story that would allow a single oncall engineer to monitor all of Plaid's integrations 24/7 while maintaining their sanity. We ended up with something beautiful that typically let us know that banks were down before they even realized there was a problem (I won't name names but you know who you are JPMC). Definitely had to change my ringtone afterwards – iykyk. We used tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Kibana in our day-to-day work as well as Typescript, Go, and Python running in Docker on ECS and K8s. Most of us also spent an inordinate amount of time writing very small functions in Bash for our service startup scripts (I still Google every time I have to write a conditional; don't judge me) or fighting YAML for our legacy CloudFormation templates. ### Software Engineer @ Plaid Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Salt Lake City, Utah, United States ### Software Engineer II @ Adobe Workfront Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Lehi, Utah, United States Key player in taking Workfront's first net-new product (Workfront Library) from conception to a successful pilot release. Architected multiple high-throughput services at the core of Library's functionality (e.g. asset and customer management) with a focus on maintainability, scalability, and resiliency. Alternate job description: Fired a lot of Nerf darts at coworkers, attended a lot of meetings, and read a lot of emails. • AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Neptune, S3, CloudFormation • Redis, Elasticsearch • Event-sourcing, CQRS, serverless, microservices, distributed computing • Java, Node.js • More buzzwords; is my SEO working yet? Workfront was acquired by Adobe in November 2020, and as part of this acquisition Library was sunset in favor of Adobe's Experience Manager Assets. Customers were reluctant to migrate and one only did so when forced in mid-2023. In their words, Library "just worked," possibly the highest praise that my architecture could have received. ### Software Engineer I @ Adobe Workfront Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### QA Engineer Intern @ Adobe Workfront Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Neumont University Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mingslogar - Website: https://mingslogar.com?ref=in - Website: https://stackoverflow.com/users/2179987/ming-slogar --- Source: https://flows.cv/mingslogar JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mingslogar/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22