Senior Software Engineer · Golang, microservices, distributed systems
Founder of Santekno · Bogor, Indonesia
12+ years building web systems that have to stay up. I care about reliability, performance, and architecture that a team can still reason about in year three.
| Now | Software Engineer at ByteDance — enterprise-scale services in Go |
| Focus | Golang · microservices · distributed systems · event-driven architecture |
| Also | Founder of Santekno — technology education for Indonesian developers |
| Based | Bogor, Indonesia · 12+ years shipping backend systems |
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| Role | Where | Period |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer | ByteDance | Feb 2024 — Present |
| Senior Software Engineer | Tokopedia | Jul 2019 — Jan 2024 |
| Founder & Author | Santekno | Jan 2012 — Present |
| Mentor | Edspert.id | Jun 2022 — Jan 2023 |
Full history, projects, and CV → bio.santekno.com
A technology education platform I run in Indonesian — practical engineering tutorials for developers who want to go past the tutorial layer.
- Golang — from fundamentals to production patterns
- System design — microservices, messaging, caching
- Database & infrastructure — PostgreSQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes
santekno.com · @santekno · youtube.com/c/santekno
- Building enterprise-scale services in Go
- Writing about Go 1.27, spec-driven development, and system architecture
- Open to mentoring and interesting distributed-systems problems
Santekno's tutorials and videos are free. If they saved you time, you can buy me a coffee.
Let's build something reliable.
ihsanarifr@gmail.com