Summary
Mahdiar Naufal is a Senior Backend Engineer and Deputy Information Security Officer based in Berlin with about three years of hands-on experience building and securing production systems. He has progressed from full-stack and backend roles in Southeast Asia to leading backend engineering and information security responsibilities at shyftplan, contributing to AI-assisted workforce planning. Mahdiar brings practical expertise across Ruby on Rails, Node.js and microservice patterns, with a track record of shipping features, optimizing algorithms, and instituting test-driven development and CI workflows. He also has experience integrating diverse third-party services (WhatsApp, push notifications, accounting tools) and leading small teams for IoT and backend projects. Curious and pragmatic, he combines developer-first engineering with an operational security mindset to deliver reliable, auditable systems.
2 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at Institut Teknologi Bandung
Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering, Full Stack Web Development Certification Computer Software Engineering at freeCodeCamp
Temasek Polytechnic
English, Indonesian, Japanese