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Hi there, I'm Rhony Septian 👋

Senior Backend Engineer | Engineering Squad Lead | Distributed Systems & High-Throughput Services

📍 Jakarta, Indonesia  |  📧 [email protected]  |  LinkedIn  |  Portfolio


  • 🌱 I'm currently learning AI workflows & integration using AI tools (GitHub Copilot, OpenCode, MCP, n8n, OpenClaw) to improve my daily coding process and scale AI adoption across teams and companies
  • 👯 I'm looking to collaborate on high-throughput backend services, distributed systems, and open-source backend tooling
  • 🤔 I'm looking for help with frontend/full-stack integrations for personal side projects
  • 💬 Ask me about Go microservices, high-throughput cart/checkout systems, idempotent APIs, Kafka, payment engineering
  • 📫 How to reach me: [email protected] or LinkedIn
  • 😄 Pronouns: He/Him
  • ⚡ Fun fact: Nocturnal engineer | my best code ships after midnight 🌙

🚀 About Me

Backend engineer with 8+ years of experience (5+ years in B2B) building high-throughput microservices in Golang, Java, and TypeScript. I specialize in:

  • ⚡ High-throughput cart and checkout services (~15,000 RPS)
  • 💳 Idempotent payment endpoints & financial correctness
  • 🔐 Auth systems (OAuth2) & distributed systems
  • ☁️ AWS, GCP/Kubernetes, Kafka/SQS, gRPC
  • 📊 Observability with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, New Relic

💼 Experience

Senior Software Engineer @ ALTO Networks (May 2024 – Present)

  • Built in-house ATM Simulator, cutting simulator costs by >10%
  • Enabled API-driven testing, reducing QA coordination effort by ~80%
  • Created load testing tools for capacity planning and cost efficiency

Engineering Squad Lead @ Aplikasi Super (Feb 2023 – May 2024)

  • Reduced API latency from 15s → <100ms, raised uptime from 85% → 98%
  • Increased transaction volume by 5%
  • Standardized backend architecture: graceful shutdown, circuit breaker, centralized logging

Senior Software Engineer @ GudangAda (Jun 2022 – Dec 2022)

  • Built Proforma Invoice service, reducing payment processing from 3–5 days → 1–2 hours
  • 75% reduction in failed deployments through mentoring and process improvements

Technical Lead @ Advotics (Sep 2021 – Jun 2022)

  • Reduced task management completion time from 15 minutes → <1 second
  • Optimized reporting: 20 min for 3K rows → 1 sec for 20K rows

Software Engineer @ Tokopedia (Jan 2020 – Aug 2021)

  • Built Cart & One-Click Checkout services handling ~15,000 RPS with ~98% uptime
  • Designed idempotent REST/gRPC APIs with distributed locking

Medium Backend Developer @ Telkom Indonesia (Feb 2018 – Dec 2019)

  • Built Nusaku.id — a tourism social media platform
  • Developed B2B IoT solutions for Indihome Smart

🛠️ Tech Stack

Languages

Go Java TypeScript Python

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS GCP Kubernetes Docker

Messaging & APIs

Kafka gRPC SQS

Databases

PostgreSQL MySQL MongoDB Redis

Observability

Prometheus Grafana Datadog New Relic


🏆 Portfolio Highlights

Project Impact
Gateway Service @ Super 13% uptime improvement, 75% cost reduction
Cart Management @ Super 20s → <100ms load time, zero complaints
Cart & Checkout @ Tokopedia ~15,000 RPS, 98% uptime
Proforma Invoice @ GudangAda 3–5 days → 1–2 hours processing
Survey Service @ Advotics 20 min → <1 sec, 3K → 20K row capacity

🔗 Full case studies: Portfolio on Notion


📚 Education

  • 🎓 Bachelor's in Computer Science — Binus University, Jakarta (2026 – Present)
  • 🎓 Associate's in Computer Software Engineering — Telkom University, Bandung (2016 – 2019)

📦 Open Source & Side Projects

Repository Description Language
my-notes-as-software-engineer Notes and insights from my experience as a Software Engineer — contributions welcome! Markdown
Sample-api-golang Simple REST API built with Go Go
Simple-Cart-Management-System Cart management system TypeScript
dating-app-sample Sample dating app TypeScript
Coding-Practice Various coding practice and test cases Go
hackerrank-practice HackerRank practice solutions JavaScript

📫 Connect With Me

LinkedIn Portfolio GitHub Email


Open to opportunities in backend engineering, distributed systems, and technical leadership roles.

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