Fajri Illahi.
Technical Lead with 7+ years building event-driven backend systems across insurance, fintech, hospitality, healthcare, and education. Currently leading 4 backend squads at IFG Life on the LifeFORCE insurance platform. BSc Physics (ITB). Active mentor and corporate trainer at BCA, DOKU Academy, and TICMI.
Lead four backend squads on the LifeFORCE insurance platform — customer onboarding, policy management, and claims, served by event-driven microservices on Kubernetes.
- Designed and led delivery of event-driven microservices on Java/Spring Boot, PostgreSQL, Kafka, Kubernetes, and AWS — coordinating across four squads (Individual, Group, Partnership, Automation).
- Set API design, code-review, and observability standards across the tribe; ran cross-functional architecture reviews with Solution Architects, DevOps, BE/FE leads, and PMs.
- Through the Automation squad, delivered policy-business pipelines (KKPM, Reinstatement, Renewal, Alteration Data) for both retail and corporate clients.
- Coached engineers on hexagonal architecture, OWASP-aligned secure coding, and pragmatic system design.
Backend engineer on the hospitality booking platform serving APAC properties.
- Built Go/Echo microservices on PostgreSQL for inventory and rate management — including a review-service from scratch and an Extranet CRUD.
- Authored unit and integration test suites for backend services; containerized with Docker for reliable multi-region deploys.
- Shipped a Laravel/Lumen finance toolkit (Kaizen) that pulled Zoho third-party data and emitted PDF account statements via email; contributed to RMS (Revenue Management System) access control and the ZEN-HS Winter-CMS marketing site.
Backend engineer on consumer-finance core services and payment integrations.
- Shipped Java/Spring Boot microservices on Kubernetes (k8s + Rancher) with RabbitMQ + JMS for async workflows; deployed via auto CI/CD on WebLogic + ingress load balancer.
- Owned mobile-service development for payment integrations: QRIS via Single PIN (kaspro), HcPay PPOB, AyoConnect paylater, and Power Paylater.
- Implemented hexagonal-architecture clean-code patterns; traced production issues with Splunk against Oracle/Redis backends.
Backend engineer on healthcare facility management SaaS for clinics across Indonesia.
- Designed RESTful APIs for the warehouse module of a healthcare facility-management SaaS used by clinics across Indonesia.
- Built and maintained Node.js / Express / LoopBack services backed by MongoDB aggregation pipelines for billing, claims, and operational reporting.
- Shipped a high-impact cron-driven auto-checkout feature for clinic doctors.
Side-gig private tutoring (concurrent with Assist.id) — math, physics, and computer science.
- Tutored students in mathematics, physics, and computer science with an emphasis on problem-solving and abstract thinking.
Led the team of physics-experiment assistants who mentored undergraduates through hands-on lab work.
- Led a team of physics laboratory assistants.
- Coordinated mentoring of undergraduate students through hands-on physics experiments.
- Evaluated and refined the laboratory experiment modules.
Local Windows voice assistant: clap-wake-word → STT → Anthropic SDK command dispatch.
LLM-assisted metallurgical failure analysis on SEM fractographs and stress-strain data.
Personal finance tracker — wallets, transactions, assets, cashflow — built on Next.js 16 + Prisma.
FastAPI agent that monitors WiFi link quality and exposes a metrics API for dashboards.
Indonesian Stock Exchange disclosure data tool — surfaces public company filings with structured queries.
Personal trading journal: log entries, performance review, and strategy tagging.
Bachelor's degree in Physics. Led the physics laboratory assistants team and refined undergraduate experiment modules.