Journey
I work primarily on backend systems, data platforms, and low-resource NLP — an interest that started with my thesis on unsupervised topic modelling and later led to MonOCR. I started programming in 2014 while studying Information Technology at Technological University (Mawlamyine).
Experience
Founding Engineer
NOSBAANA multi-property, monthly-rentals business in Bangkok. I'm the sole engineer, owning the platform end to end for a small, cross-functional team — architecture through production operations and the on-call. • Designed and built an event-driven ERP on GCP; async workers isolate failures and keep heavy work off the request path. • Made ingestion idempotent under at-least-once delivery, so events never double-process. • A pre-push test tier fails a skipped suite instead of passing it quietly; load-tested the check-in flow clean at 120 concurrent users, P95 ~1.06s. • Built an AI-assisted guest-messaging system over RAG, with a grounding guard; in supervised rollout now, every reply is operator-approved before it sends.
Senior Full Stack Developer
Thibi• Proposed and led a migration to a simpler system design for the Myanmar Biodiversity Portal, dropping a dedicated server and consolidating two data tools into one, which cut infrastructure cost by ~33%. • Replaced an Airflow pipeline with a lightweight ETL workflow (Python → static JSON via GitLab Runner); latency dropped from 1–2 hours to under 5 minutes, and cost fell ~50%. • Led development of a public civic data platform serving 2.8K peak daily active users (GA4) and 100K+ records. • Introduced Next.js through a prototype and demo, then SvelteKit for lightweight data-story builds, leaving reusable templates and shared components the team kept using. • Mentored two junior engineers through code review and pair programming.
Full Stack Developer
Thibi• Built GIS platforms with real-time capabilities (WebSockets), data pipelines, and analytics dashboards across geospatial and analytics projects, using React, PostGIS, MongoDB, and Redis. • Developed backend APIs and data-processing services across GIS, analytics, and civic platforms, using Node.js, Python, REST, and GraphQL. • Automated recurring operational workflows across deployments, monitoring, and data exports, reducing manual overhead and improving reliability. • Standardised CI/CD pipelines and containerised deployments with Docker and Kubernetes, replacing manual steps that caused inconsistent releases.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
Final Year Thesis: Applied LDA and NMF topic modelling techniques to NLP datasets.
Endorsements
"I had the privilege of working as a project manager for nearly five years on a very small team, where Zin Min served as the sole or lead developer. He was consistently two to three steps ahead of his responsibilities and approached unexpected challenges with enthusiasm and professionalism. I especially appreciate his patience and his ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly to non-technical team members. I’m confident he would be an invaluable asset to any team."
"He is a passionate and motivated mentor who has guided me in achieving important milestones in my career. He has strong technical knowledge and is always actively learning to stay up to date with the latest developments in the field. He makes logical and well-thought-out technical decisions, supported by critical thinking. I truly appreciate his guidance and support in my professional growth."
"Zin Min is a very patient senior who always gives clear and helpful guidance. He’s strong in both frontend and backend, and I learned a lot from him about writing clean code and better scripts. I’m really happy I got the chance to work with him."
"A professional colleague and senior who is passionate about coding. Working with him was always wonderful."