Rakha Kanz Kautsar

A software engineer currently focusing on mobile applications and its performance aspect.

rkkautsar@gmail.com | rakha.dev | linkedin.com/in/rkkautsar | github.com/rkkautsar

Employment

Software Engineer (App / React Native - Order & Performance), Shopee - Singapore - Sep 2019 - now

Shopee is a leading and growing e-commerce company in Southeast Asia & Taiwan under Sea Limited  (NYSE:SE)

• Reduce initial load time of Shopee app's shopping cart from 10s to 1s (-90%).
• Use and build various performance tooling to improve overall app performance and cart page specifically.
• Implement various UX improvements, business and promotion features in cart and checkout page.

Keyword: React, Redux, React Native, Performance, Shopping Cart, Flow, Typescript, Lerna, Monorepo

Software Engineer, Intern & Part Time, Stoqo - Jakarta - 2017, 2018

Stoqo was a B2B (and later B2C) supply chain company connecting suppliers to small underserved restaurants and shops in ID.

• Expand Stoqo distribution channel via building Stoqo E-commerce Web Application from scratch.
• Increase customer engagement and transparency through developing Stoqo customer dashboard.
• Reduce 2 hours of daily operational work by building picker and driver management app and dashboard.

Keyword: React, Redux, SSR, AWS, Algolia, Google Analytics, ChartJS, Cloudinary, Django, S3, SQS

Software Engineer, Intern & Part Time, Dekoruma - Jakarta - 2016, 2017

Dekoruma is a Home & Living, Design & Build marketplace in ID.

• Increase conversion by developing product tagging to enable direct purchase from banner images.
• Enable a new user acquisition channel by initiating Dekoruma Android application using React Native.

Keyword: React, Redux, Node.js, MongoDB, Normalizr, Heroku, Algolia, ReactDnD, React Native, React Native Web

Projects (more on github.com/rkkautsar)

Reprobench: Reproducible Benchmark for Everyone, Jan-Jun 2019 | GitHub

• Research the requirement, design and build a modular and extensible framework for reproducible benchmarking with master-worker cross-machine communication
• Additionally build a cross-platform resource monitoring tool based on research need (GitHub)

Keyword: Distributed System, ZeroMQ, Research Tool, Benchmarking, Profiling, Python, HPC, Conda

Redux Companion, October 2018 | GitHub

• Developed a set of tools to help reduce redux code boilerplate
• Reduced 60-70% LOC of boilerplate codes after being used in various Stoqo's front-end code base
• Implemented best practices like unit testing with code coverage, automated testing, and linting

Keyword: Redux, Library, Rollup, Jest, Travis CI, Codecov

Moving Library, Winter 2017 | GitHub (Mobile App) | GitHub (API Service) |  Expo

• Developed a peer-to-peer book sharing platform that enables people and educational organizations to share and lend their book collection.
• Developed the API service with Node and the mobile app with Expo and React Native.

Keyword: React Native, Expo, Mobx, Stripe API, Facebook API, PostgreSQL, Node.js, Knex, Koa

Education

Universitas Indonesia · Depok, Indonesia · 2015 - August 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science. GPA: 3.80/4.00

Technische Universität Dresden · Dresden, Germany · Jan - Jun 2019

Research Intern in Computational Logic. Project: Benchmarking Tool for Reproducible Research [GitHub | Thesis]

Awards (more on linkedin.com/in/rkkautsar)

• 2017 - Jakarta Winner, Singapore Airlines AppChallenge - Jakarta & Singapore - Hackathon

A hackathon-style software development contest held by SIA across Singapore, Jakarta, and San Francisco.

• 2016 - Top 20 Contestant, ACM ICPC Regional Asia Jakarta - Jakarta - Programming Competition

Asia Regional qualification for International Collegiate Programming Contest World Finals.

• 2017 - Silver Medalist, Software Development - Gemastik - Depok - Software Development Competition

Nationwide Software Development contest held by Indonesia Ministry of IT & Research.