About

MINKI CHOI

Republic of Korea
agileup.AT.gmail.com

SUMMARY

• Strong knowledge of developing web services both server and client side
• Familiar with object oriented architecture and MVC model based framework
• Experience in agile practice including TDD, pair programming
• Ability to develop prototypes quickly and handle multiple tasks
• Passionate about learning new concepts and discussing technology

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Computer Science
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Korea
March, 2006 - February, 2012

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer, Freelancer
Self-Employed, Seoul, Korea
September, 2018 - Present

• Analyze huge mobility data provided by government using Golang
• Launch a few ecommerce site based on wordpress with AWS Elastic Beanstalk
• Implemented mobile application with Flutter

Software Engineer, Freelancer
Self-Employed, San Jose, CA
January - July, 2018

• Initial set up for development and deploy process with git, jira, slack
• Handle multiple projects using docker
• Design new query language for data streaming, especially fetching past and future data at once

Tech Leader of Back-end
Toss Lab, Inc. JANDI, Seoul, Korea
June, 2014 - December, 2017

• Developed real-time messaging service with websocket and stream processing
• Built high availability architecture for mobile push and integration(webhook) server
• Managed operations for deployment, monitoring

Web Site and Application Developer
VentureSquare, Seoul, Korea
December, 2012 - June, 2013

• Developed and customized wordpress multi-sites plugins and theme in PHP
• Changed platform from TextCube to Wordpress. Implemented a plugin which imports to Wordpress from TTXML with maintaining author and permalink perfectly
• Improved site performance 3x faster by using Varnish cache server. Increased advertising revenue by optimized SEO options

Lead Developer
OpenTrade, Seoul, Korea
April - September, 2012

• Developed database-driven dynamic web applications using PHP and MySQL
• Created web sites including site architecture, graphics design, HTML and CSS markup, etc
• Received about $200k in Seed funding after 3 months of work

Software Engineer, Intern
Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea
June - August, 2011

• Designed, developed web-based application for co-development management system. Created importer to database in Python from huge XML data
• Personally implemented features about hooking and mapping internal calls of DirectX 10 for offload computing project in C++

Military Security Specialist, Soldier
Defense Security Command, Gwacheon, Korea
June, 2008 - May, 2010

• Implemented several Windows system applications in C/C++ by using MFC and WDK such as network log analyzer, keyboard hooker and driver to conceal process

ENGINEERING PROJECT

OdabNote
Lead Developer, for 9 months

• Managed the project’s technical roadmap and execution of features and scalability
• Designed RESTful API server and developed Ajax-based web application in PHP and MySQL

Pemako
Server and Android Developer, for 6 months

• Implemented android LBS application using Google Maps API
• Developed server and database in Python using Django and MongoDB for geospatial indexing

PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

Hackathon

• LoveBed - WithCamp Hardware Hackathon, 1st Light WithCamp(sketch video)

• Samantha - LG Wearable Big Bang Hackathon 2015

• LangHACK - 善(선) Global Challenge 2014(facebook)
  web-based prototype(github) that connects language learners with natives wherever they are

• QuizPang - AngelHack 2013(tweet)
  iOS app about word-guessing game with simultaneous video chat using TokBox API

• Claim0% - StartupWeekend Seoul(sketch video)
  iOS prototype app inspired by UserVoice, 2nd Prize in competition

• YEATI - StartupWeekend Daejeon
  Android prototype(demo video) app about LinkedIn for next generations, QPrize(article) in beLAUNCH 2012

Paper

“A Context-aware Smart Alarm Application on Smartphones”
Sang-Bok Shin, Sang-Heon Lee, Min-Ki Choi
International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication (ICEIC 2012)

Other

• Volunteering at Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity in Kolkata, India
• Leader of street dance crew in university
• Archiving code samples of my projects at GitHub