Backend engineer
building reliable
systems.
I'm Fajri Illahi — a Technical Lead in Jakarta. Seven years shipping event-driven backend systems across insurance, fintech, hospitality, healthcare, and education. Today I lead four backend squads at IFG Life on the LifeFORCE insurance platform.
Leading four backend squads at IFG Life on a national insurance platform.
LifeFORCE event-driven microservices on Java/Spring Boot, Kafka, K8s, AWS. Four squads: Individual, Group, Partnership, Automation.
Lead instructor for a corporate Spring Boot programme at Bank Central Asia. Hexagonal architecture, secure coding, observability.
Capital-markets data engineering with Python — built syllabus around real IDX disclosure datasets.
Self-hosted Jarvis voice agent, materials failure analysis with Claude API, palm-oil plantation GIS — engineering as continuous learning.
Featured projects from the last twelve months.
A mix of production systems shipped at scale and the side projects I build to stay sharp. Click any card to read the longer write-up.
Jarvis Main System
Local Windows voice assistant: clap-wake-word → STT → Anthropic SDK command dispatch.
Sendi · AI-Based Materials Failure Analysis
LLM-assisted metallurgical failure analysis on SEM fractographs and stress-strain data.
Afdal · Personal Finance
Personal finance tracker — wallets, transactions, assets, cashflow — built on Next.js 16 + Prisma.
Seven years across five industries.
Insurance, fintech, hospitality, healthcare, education. The thread: event-driven backends, clean architecture, and engineers who keep growing.
Present
Lead four backend squads on the LifeFORCE insurance platform — customer onboarding, policy management, and claims, served by event-driven microservices on Kubernetes.
Mar 2023
Backend engineer on the hospitality booking platform serving APAC properties.
Jun 2022
Backend engineer on consumer-finance core services and payment integrations.
Looking for a senior backend lead
who has actually shipped at scale?
I'm open to senior IC, staff, and tech-lead roles — remote or Jakarta-based. Comfortable in product orgs and platform teams alike.