Summary
Mik Minier is a multidisciplinary founder and server engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable real-time backends for multiplayer games and live interactive events. As founder of C5H5GaMes and lead/architect for Innersloth’s backend team, he architects and operates high-performance systems (.NET, Go, Redis, Postgres, NATS, Docker, K8s) that power games like Among Us while mentoring distributed teams. His background—PhD-level chemistry, mathematics and biochemistry—fuels a research-driven approach to game design and biomimetic-inspired mechanics for science edutainment. Equally at home prototyping gameplay systems and hardening production microservices, he blends deep domain knowledge with rapid learning techniques to tackle novel technical challenges. Based in Tokyo, he also brings a creative edge as a practicing street dancer and multilingual communicator, an unusual combination that informs both team leadership and player-facing experiences.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Inorganic Chemistry, 4.8, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Inorganic Chemistry, 4.8 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry, 3.96, Bachelor of Science (BS), Biochemistry, 3.96 at University of the Pacific
English, Japanese, Korean, French, Thai