Brilian Firdaus

Brilian Firdaus

Senior Software Engineer

Jakarta, Indonesia, Southeast Asia

Senior Software Engineer at Grab, specializing in backend systems and high-performance applications. I build scalable services that handle millions of transactions while sharing knowledge through technical writing and community engagement.Try chatting with my AI assistant at bottom right to learn more about my experience!

Skills & Technologies

Technologies I work with to build amazing products

Backend

GoLangJavaSpring BootPython

Database

MongoDBPostgreSQLRedisElasticsearch

Cloud & DevOps

AWSDockerKubernetesCI/CDKafkaRabbitMQ

Performance & Tools

Gitk6 Load TestingLLM

Architecture

MicroservicesScalabilityResiliencyAPI Design

Professional Experience

My journey in software development

Senior Software Engineer

Grab

2024 - Present

Working on the Transaction Platform team at Southeast Asia's leading superapp, building features around cross-sell and monetization-focused customer journey integration

  • Building scalable backend services in service-oriented architecture
  • Working on business-critical systems handling high traffic
  • Focusing on system resiliency and performance optimization
  • Involved in cross-sell feature development for revenue growth

Principal Software Development Engineer

Blibli

2018 - 2024 (6+ years)

Advanced through multiple engineering roles at one of Indonesia's largest e-commerce platforms, from Associate to Principal level, leading critical systems and high-impact projects

  • Co-led team of ~10 engineers in Loyalty team as Principal Engineer
  • Led Dream On Project - main highlighted product during 2023 end-of-year double date sale
  • Led Unified Loyalty Point x Unified Membership integration supporting group unification goals
  • Co-led IAM system revamp achieving 13,000 QPS capacity using GKE and Redis caching
  • Co-led phone number registration project generating ~100,000 new user registrations monthly
  • Designed and built Internal Incident Management system with SRE team reducing operational overhead
  • Designed 3rd party OAuth login integration with implicit flow
  • Built search systems for Hotel, Tiket, and Voucher products using Elasticsearch and event-driven architecture
  • Improved system resilience implementing Hystrix and Resilience4j circuit breakers
  • Contributed to company blog and reviewed system architecture for Financial Service and IAM teams

Featured Projects

Some of my recent work

Code Curated

Technical blog focused on backend systems, performance optimization, and engineering best practices

Technologies:

Technical WritingSEO OptimizationContent StrategyCommunity Building

Key Features:

  • In-depth backend tutorials
  • Performance optimization guides
  • System architecture insights
  • Engineering best practices

Let's Work Together

I'm always interested in exciting opportunities and challenging projects

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