hi, it's ming.

he / him

I'm a software developer from upstate New York, currently based in the Salt Lake valley.

 

how i build

I (clearly) am not biased towards frontend development, but I still believe that user experiences should be intuitive and logically coherent — this includes internal- and developer-facing tooling.

I believe that backend services should scale horizontally and support zero-downtime deployments.

I believe that platform teams should build tooling that promotes engineer velocity and creativity.

I believe that the primary role of management, process, training, and tooling is to support individual contributors.

I believe that producing quantity of code was never the bottleneck (even less so with AI); designing reliable, maintainable, customer-centric systems is the engineer's primary role.

I believe that the best code is the code that's serving production traffic.

 

ask me about

How my team prepared to lift our most critical systems from on-prem to the cloud, managing latency when compute and database lived in physically different datacenters.

How my team designed and ran a load-testing platform that could simulate 60,000 concurrent users, used by nearly half of the engineering org to test our most business-critical systems.

How my team built a workflow that allowed engineers to manipulate customer PII while minimizing direct exposure to it.

How my team built a solution to allow a single oncall engineer to monitor integrations with 11,000+ financial institutions.

 

let's chat

Now that you've gotten to know me, it's only fitting that you tell me a little about yourself:

ming.slogar@gmail.com • linkedin.com/in/mingslogar • +1 (385) 743-9307