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Engineering Manager at PT Komunal Sejahtera Indonesia (depositobpr.id)

Company • Full-time

Jul 2023 - Jul 2026 • 3 yrs

Owned engineering delivery for DepositoBPR, an OJK-regulated fintech platform, leading 6 engineers across React/Angular front ends and NestJS microservices on GCP while staying hands-on in the codebase. - Led a team of 6 software engineers through sprint ceremonies and biweekly 1-on-1s, pairing delivery cadence with individual career growth for every direct report. - Introduced a mandatory automated-testing gate in CI backed by SonarQube for static code quality, and coached the team on service-level test design. - Built PerfReporting on Next.js and Prisma with two-way ClickUp and GitLab sync. - Migrated a legacy MongoDB database to Cloud Firestore, bringing the data store onto the same managed GCP stack the services already ran on. - Established a biweekly deployment cadence with a written release plan behind every release, and had Datadog watching production services once they were live. - Aligned every technical solution with Product before build started, and ran post-mortem reviews after incidents. - Wrote and rolled out engineering SOPs mapped to OJK compliance requirements, keeping fintech operations audit-ready. - Represented engineering in the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 audit, answering for the technical controls behind the company's information security management system. - Reviewed and refactored core services directly, holding the codebase to consistent design patterns as the team grew. Achievements - Cut third-party spend by ~90% by replacing a vendor rule engine and voucher system with an in-house build (2026) - Consolidated scattered engineering documentation into one Notion workspace with Mermaid diagrams authored inline instead of a separate tool, and built an FSD command for AI agents so every functional spec came out to the same standard - Migrated the test suite from Jest to Vitest, running the GitLab pipeline roughly 3x faster

Freelance Full Stack TypeScript Engineer

Self Employed • Freelance

Apr 2017 - Feb 2026 • 8 yrs 10 mos

Independent engineer and tech lead for startups and established companies in Indonesia, Singapore, the US, and Pakistan, engaged both directly and through Fiverr and Upwork. - Led 2 full stack engineers at Logipeace (Tech Lead, Jul 2025 - Feb 2026) building the Shipeace and Docupeace maritime logistics SaaS on Next.js. - Owned the Shipeace email module, clearing critical production bugs and shipping AI Summary, Email Pinning, and Pagination. - Built a Dropship API at KrisShop (Senior Software Engineer, Oct 2023 - Mar 2024) as an aggregator layer over multiple suppliers for product sourcing and order routing in NestJS, plus a Remix internal admin site. - Built a multiplatform React Native Expo boilerplate for an e-SIM product, writing the native bridge modules in Java and Swift (Upwork, Singapore). - Delivered 10+ web and mobile projects in React, Remix, Qwik, and React Native — 8 sourced through Fiverr and Upwork, the rest contracted directly — for clients including Codemi (Upwork), Ibupedia (Fiverr), TopSkor, Pintr, and Dagangan, plus KanjiPalace (Oct 2025 - Present), a kanji-learning iOS app built with a friend and taken through App Store submission to release. Achievements - Held a 5-star rating across all 8 marketplace clients, 6 on Fiverr (US, Indonesia, Pakistan) and 2 on Upwork (Indonesia, Singapore), with several coming back for repeat work (2017 - 2026)

Engineering Manager APAC at PT Sembilan Puluh Enam Derajat (flash-coffee.com)

Company • Full-time

Oct 2021 - Jun 2023 • 1 yr 8 mos

Owned the Payment and Post-Order domains of the Flash Coffee app across APAC, managing 12 people in 2 cross-functional squads while staying hands-on in the React Native app, the Remix web application, and the NestJS services. - Managed 12 team members across the Payment and Post-Order squads, each staffed with 1 Tech Lead and 5 engineers. - Drove up transaction success rates across APAC markets by leading the rework of the payment and post-order flows. - Set up the web application's deployment on Vercel from scratch, giving it short release cycles and fast time-to-production from day one. - Wired up Datadog monitoring and alerts for the payment and post-order services in every APAC market. Achievements - Built and open-sourced react-native-zendesk-messaging, a React Native bridge to Zendesk messaging with native modules written in Java and Swift - Held test coverage at a 90% average in the Payment squad and around 80% in Post-Order, with SonarQube gating code quality across both - Launched the company's first web application, built on Remix, opening a channel beyond the existing React Native apps (2022)