Summary
M Haidar Hanif is a software engineering manager and serial founder with 13+ years of hands-on experience building full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript platforms and growing engineering teams. He combines leadership at Wayfindr with founding roles across Bearmentor, Catamyst, Dogokit and BandungDev, where he’s scaled communities to thousands and mentored over a thousand students. His work spans frontend and backend, architecture, APIs, infrastructure and automated testing, with proven delivery of commercial projects and consultancy that generated six-figure revenues for his ventures and clients. Known for pragmatic clean-architecture practices, he coaches engineers through code reviews, system design and production-readiness while championing developer experience and observability. A community builder and educator at heart, he runs bootcamps and meetups that turn learners into job-ready engineers and freelance professionals. Based in Indonesia, he’s equally comfortable shipping code, running mentorship programs, and turning technical problems into repeatable business outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Lead Mentor, Full Stack Web Development, Lead Mentor, Full Stack Web Development at Bearmentor
Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development, Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Lead Mentor, Full Stack Web Development, Lead Mentor, Full Stack Web Development at Impact Byte
Tech Lead, Software Engineering, Tech Lead, Software Engineering at Catamyst
Senior Instructor, Full Stack Web Development, Senior Instructor, Full Stack Web Development at Hacktiv8 Indonesia
English, Indonesian