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Started building financial operation systems, learning how data accuracy, reports, and service behavior shape real business workflows.
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Moved into larger enterprise environments: correspondence systems, training platforms, SSO, Oracle-backed services, and legacy integration.
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Built marketplace modules across payment, search, catalog, content, and merchant workflows while getting closer to cloud operations.
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Now focused on M-Smile channel delivery, dependable Java services, messaging patterns, and practical AI-assisted engineering workflows.
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Java
Practical Error Handling in Spring Boot for Reliable Production APIs
A hands-on guide to robust error handling in Spring Boot APIs—covering best practices, code examples, and production-ready patterns.
13 min read
AI
My Practical AI-Assisted Engineering Workflow
How I use AI as a thinking partner for reading code, designing APIs, debugging issues, and writing clearer technical notes.
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Backend
Building Calm Backend Systems
A practical checklist for designing backend services that are easier to operate, debug, and trust in production.
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Java
Java and Spring Boot Production Checklist
The small Spring Boot defaults I like to review before a backend service gets close to production traffic.
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How I Structure a Next.js and MDX Personal Blog
A practical look at the file-based architecture behind this blog: MDX posts, category pages, related articles, and generated content.
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System Design for Small Products
A grounded way to think about architecture before a product has the traffic, team, or complexity of a large platform.
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I'm a backend engineer in Jakarta working on banking and digital ecosystem systems. My day-to-day stack includes Java, Spring Boot, messaging, databases, cloud infrastructure, search, and API design. This blog documents the practical lessons behind that work.
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