Indonesia

Back-end

Roberto Tambunan

Engineering Manager

Problem-solving

Empathy

Leadership

GitHub

Golang (Go)

Jira

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Team player

Critical-thinking

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

As a Software Engineer, I took on a squad leadership role across multiple impactful projects, driving both technical development and project management:

PayPay Search: Led the initiative to design and develop PayPay's first-ever search system, enhancing user experience and functionality within the platform.

Municipality Myna Campaign: Directed the project to build a campaign management system for government entities, enabling them to issue rewards and campaigns to citizens based on predefined rules via PayPay. 

Point Information Portal: Developed a robust pipeline to identify and track user reward sources efficiently. The data pipeline supports not only PayPay but also external clients, enabling scalable solutions for diverse business needs.

- Developing and maintaining Tokopedia's Search Engine (Products, Shops, Profiles, Catalogues, Digital Goods, Vouchers, and almost everything!)
- Developing and maintaining Autocomplete search and Search Traffic Distribution to all Tokopedia Business Units
- Developing and maintaining keyword matching and keyword processing modules in Tokopedia Search, such as keyword synonym, typo correction, keyword-to-keyword, keyword-to-product, and advance search; integrated with the ML models
- Leading Search Exploration (Keyword) Squad that consists of 6 Software Engineers
- Working with Technical Architects to create, upgrade, and implement stacks in back-end areas
- Collaborate with the Product Manager and Team Members to define story requirements and specifications, and ensure that the team meets business objectives while maintaining technical and architectural standards
- Working directly with the Head of Engineering and VPEs for team management and tech-project management
- Creating and Maintaining the monitoring and alerting system
- Roaming around other squads to work together to solve problems and find solutions
- Involved in creating the Tokopedia Interview Standard for the Technology Department

- Developing and maintaining Tokopedia's Search Engine (Products, Shops, Profiles, Catalogues, Digital Goods, Vouchers, and almost everything!)
- Developing and maintaining Autocomplete search and Search Traffic Distribution to all Tokopedia Business Units
- Leading Search Exploration Team that consists of 4 Software Engineers
- Working with Technical Architect to create, upgrade, and implement stacks in back-end areas
- Working alongside Product Managers to create the best product to fulfill consumer needs
- Working with Engineering Manager for task assignment and prioritization and team management
- Involved in creating new architecture standard in search modules, to make it testable, readable, and independent
- Built automated integration test for Search System
- Involved in hiring process in Tokopedia as Panel Interviewer

Follows 3 principles:
- Focus on Consumer
- Growth Mindset
- Make it Happen, Make it Better!

Technology stacks used:
Golang, ElasticSearch, Redis, ApsaraDB, PostgreSQL, NGINX, Jenkins, Consul, Prometheus + Grafana, Datadog, Big Query, Google Storage.

Roberto Tambunan🇮🇩