Ming-Yi Lin 林明毅
Senior software engineer based in London, building and modernising web products and internal platforms with Ruby on Rails, TypeScript, React, Node.js and PostgreSQL. Focused on reliable delivery, practical system design and collaboration.
Experience
Full Stack Engineer — HeadBox Ltd
Event tech company supporting venue booking and event planning across international markets.
- Modernised a legacy platform by extracting services while maintaining continuity for existing users.
- Delivered customer-facing products and internal tools across the full stack.
- Built cloud infrastructure and automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Integrated third-party platforms and developed workflows supporting product, operations and international growth.
- Mentored an engineer and collaborated with product, support and operations teams.
Full Stack Engineer — SyncACE Inc.
Fintech startup building digital loan servicing, KYC and credit scoring products.
- Built and maintained a digital lending and credit scoring platform — AlphaLoan.
- Integrated machine-learning models and worked with data scientists to improve risk assessment.
- Improved onboarding and marketing automation, increasing conversion by 30% and reducing operational time by 70%.
- Designed secure APIs for banking and third-party integrations.
Ruby on Rails Developer — KumaWash
Early engineer at an on-demand laundry and dry cleaning startup.
- Built the platform from the ground up with Ruby on Rails.
- Introduced React to improve customer-facing workflows.
- Improved delivery practices and mentored a junior developer.
Software Engineer — NTOU GIS Research Center
- Built GIS web systems, dashboards and data tools.
- Developed QGIS plugins using C++, Qt and Python.
- Supported research projects in disaster prevention and marine navigation.
Community & Projects
- Contributed to open-source projects across web development and AI. See GitHub.
- Coached programming workshops and created learning materials for Rails beginners.
Education
BSc in Computer Science — National Taiwan Ocean University
Final-year project focused on computer vision and distance estimation using OpenCV.