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About

Three roles, one person

Call me Kai. I am a Computer Science student at BINUS University and a software engineer who enjoys turning ideas into digital products that solve real business problems.

I enjoy the technical side of a product, but what interests me more is the business behind it. Choosing the right architecture, planning for growth, and building software that can still be maintained years later are the parts I genuinely like.

I would rather work as a long-term technical partner than a pair of hands: involved from early planning through development, deployment, and the improvements that come after. Not just receiving a spec and writing code.

Based in Jakarta, Indonesia. The two situations people usually come to me with: something needs to be built from nothing, or an existing system has stopped keeping up with the people using it.

Peran 01Software EngineerFull-stack web and mobile. Code that real people use and that survives after I hand it over.
Peran 02Technical PartnerHelping founders pick a stack, weigh the cost, and decide what not to build.
Peran 03Full-Stack DeveloperDatabase schema, API, interface, deployment, and the monitoring that follows.

What I reach for

TypeScriptReactNext.jsNode.jsNestJSReact NativeLaravelPostgreSQLFirebaseSystem Design

This is a list of tools, not an identity. If a project would be better served by something else, I will say so early.