Muhamad Fariz Farhan

Jakarta, Indonesia

Professional Summary

Senior Backend Engineer with 5+ years of experience at Indonesia's largest e-commerce and stock investing platforms. Specialized in high-scale distributed systems, backend architecture, and database management, mainly using Go, PostgreSQL, Redis, and AWS/GCP. Proven record in owning large-scale projects, delivering zero-downtime migrations, and designing resilient services handling 300,000+ RPS. Strong in technical leadership and cross-team collaboration. Experienced in designing agentic engineering harnesses that autonomously deliver tickets to production-ready code across multi-repository codebases.

Technical Skills

Languages: Go, JavaScript, PHP, Python, Java

Databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Cassandra, CockroachDB, YugabyteDB

Infrastructure: AWS, GCP, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible

Tools & Methods: Git, CI/CD, Load Testing, Microservices, Distributed Systems

AI/Agentic Engineering: Agent harness design, autonomous SDLC workflows, cross-repository context orchestration

Professional Experience

Backend Engineer, Specialist

Stockbit - Financial Data Team

April 2026 - Present

  • Designed and implemented an agentic engineering harness that autonomously delivers tickets to merged pull requests, orchestrating context gathering, implementation, and review across multi-repository codebases.
  • Maintain stock data metrics powering Stockbit's keystats, screener, and financial statement modules, ensuring data accuracy and timeliness for retail and institutional investors.
  • Implemented banking-specific metrics for both conventional and sharia banks listed under the IDX index, enabling accurate screening coverage for the banking sector.
  • Delivered 40+ metrics on the Stockbit screener, expanding parameter-based filtering coverage for issuer discovery.

Senior Backend Engineer

Shopee - Order Operation Tribe, Clearing Team

February 2025 - April 2026

  • Migrated 10+ billion row database tables to new infrastructure with zero service downtime, ensuring 100% data integrity for critical financial operations
  • Architected and maintained Formula Calculation Service APIs, automating compensation and monetary adjustment processes, and integrated Formula Calculation Service across multiple Clearing subdomains to centralize formula management and streamline workflows for the order operations team.
  • Maintained the Compensation System with dynamic calculation logic, ensuring payouts were consistently computed according to defined business rules and enhancing overall efficiency.
  • Architected and maintained the Global Merchant Compensation System, tracking cumulative compensation issued to merchants against configurable per-merchant-group thresholds (e.g. a $10K/year cap across a merchant group), surfacing merchants with abnormal compensation activity for investigation.

Software Engineer, Backend

Tokopedia - Purchase Platform Tribe

August 2021 - February 2025 (3.5 years)

Continuous employment through company acquisitions (GoTo Company 2022, ByteDance 2024)

  • Identified and resolved an algorithm defect in the Order History Service, improving response time by 16x and reducing CPU utilization by 10%. Separately, designed and implemented a multi-layer failover system for the service, achieving 100% uptime during datastore failures.
  • Directed the migration of 5+ distributed database clusters (300+ cores) across production environments with zero downtime, and led ongoing management of distributed database infrastructure totaling 15+ TB and billions of rows.
  • Architected a consolidated core module in the Cart Service, reducing redundancy and maintaining 99.9%+ uptime while serving millions of daily transactions.
  • Served as a key architect for the Generic Transaction Platform supporting 10+ business units, eliminating code duplication and reducing development time by 3x.
  • Initiated and led the design and implementation of a configurable rate limiting system, reducing manual configuration effort from hours to under one hour, and drove performance testing POCs validating 300,000+ RPS capacity for high-traffic databases.
  • Delivered technical presentations to 300+ engineers on distributed database best practices, earning a 4.5+/5 NPS score.

Lead Programmer

Markt.inc Agency

June 2020 - February 2021

  • Led a 4+ member engineering team to deliver multiple client projects, including product catalogs and corporate websites.
  • Directed the adoption of CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows, guiding the engineering team in modernizing deployment practices, which improved productivity and significantly accelerated code delivery.
  • Led the design and development of a headless CMS boilerplate, establishing standardized workflows that streamlined client website projects and reduced duplicate effort.

Education

University of Indonesia, Jakarta - Bachelor of Information Systems (2021)

Certifications/Publications/Speaking Engagements

Global Business Skills Course - HARDSKILLS - Graduated with distinction, 85% final score (2024)

Database Technology Instructor - COMPFEST 16 Fasilkom UI (August 2024)

Technical Speaker - Yugabyte Community Internal Tokopedia Sessions (September 2023)

Intellectual Property Publication - Handling General Calculation System Using Configurable Formula - IPCOM/000270829 (2022)