Summary
Billy Malik is a Backend Engineer with 9 years of software experience and 4+ years focused on building distributed systems in Go, currently maintaining an API gateway and custom KrakenD plugins at Amartha. He has a strong track record at startups like Stockbit—where he initiated a Go monorepo, standardized Protobuf/gRPC with Buf, built payment and KYC services, and introduced Nix for reproducible builds—alongside producing internal libraries, CLIs, and automation. An open-source enthusiast and member of the NixOS organization, he also contributes to developer productivity through tooling, hiring programs, and a Go training initiative (GLU). Comfortable across Kafka, gRPC, Redis, MongoDB/DynamoDB, TimescaleDB, and blockchain tooling (go-ethereum), he pairs pragmatic engineering with platform thinking. Based in Jakarta, he blends deep systems craftsmanship with a passion for libraries and CLI tools that simplify onboarding and long-term maintenance.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Bogor Agricultural University