Gavinda Kinandana
Backend Engineer
Summary
Hello world. Gavin here. I have more than 6 years Software Engineering experience especially as Backend Engineer. Crafting code in Golang, Javascript, and PHP. Helping companies to build a battle-tested service to generate billions of GMV. Passionate, curious about technology, and a fast learner. Let's work together.
Experience
Backend Engineer
Build a reliable, robust, testable, scalable and maintainable service for a Series C ($77.3M) Connected Commerce Startup in Indonesia. Work closely with Product Team and other stakeholder to deliver valueable features to users. Contribute to engineering team to write a better unit testing, move some legacy systems to a microservice ecosystem, and maintain legacy codes from acquired startup to keep the business still growth.
- Build and Release a Shopify Plugin for Everpro to Shopify App Store and bringing around Rp 1,3 Bio shipping fee per June 2025
- Contribute to Everpro CM3 All Time High per May 2025 and CM3 Shipping increase from Rp 681 Mio to Rp 947 Mio
- Help increase Everpro GMV by around 25% (several hundred billion) from Q4 2023 - Q1 2024.
- Help increase Everpro GMV by around 64.03% (several hundred billion) from Q3 2022 - Q2 2023.
- Design, build and deploy a payment backend service from scratch and integrating with 3rd party payment gateway
- Help boost Digital Product GMV (pulsa category) around 1398.46% from Q2 2021 - Q3 2021.
- Bring the first unit testing culture to the other engineers even when I first joined in the company
Web Developer
I was involved in several projects and products for one of the best Software House in Yogyakarta. My responsibilites are write codes, tests, docs, collaborate with Devops to deploying to production, deliver the task to Lead Dev or Senior Dev, and of course solving bug or issues.
- Use their own PHP internal framework to build a services for clients.
- Bring THE FIRST EVER microservice architecture project in company to production.
- Be the first engineer to bring Golang to production
- Sharing knowledge and mentoring other engineers to improve their skills
Global Inovasi Utama
03/2017 - 07/2017
Junior Programmer
Developing the ATM Monitoring System. Maintaining the ATM app itself and little bit developing the web app for reporting dashboard. The tech stack behind this app is Java and PHP. Also using Mysql for the database
Internship
This is an internship work part of my University process. Work at one of Indonesia Nuclear Company in the IT department. Develop a product that will be used by IT departments to monitor their tools using PHP Codeigniter.