Tech lead of the API team

• everything related to public API and MCP

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

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.

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.

Project: Software Populations

Created "Where's It?" Android app