Ricky Chandra
Senior Software Engineer at Grab
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Chandra is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with 10 years of experience building distributed systems and customer-facing products using Go, Java, and React-Redux. He has shipped backend microservices and full-stack features at scale—designing user and insurance services that serve millions—while recently focusing on SRE and insurance product engineering at Grab. A practical open-source contributor, Ricky improved UX and internal robustness in the popular Kong/Insomnia API client by adding hotkeys, cleaning response handling, and adding tests. He blends deep backend expertise with front-end sensibility, often tackling both feature implementation and infrastructure reliability. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and measurable quality improvements across the stack.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universitas Bina Nusantara (Binus)
English, Indonesian, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
api-client10
hotkeys10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
react10
testing9
electron9
api9
codemirror8
wpgraphql7
wordpress-graphql7
graphql7
rest-api7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Kong/insomnia
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 24 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ricky implemented new features and addressed bugs within the Insomnia API client. Their work includes adding keyboard shortcuts to improve user experience, cleaning up deleted responses, and displaying request group names in the tag editor dropdown. The user also refactored code, particularly in the response handling and hotkey functionalities, and updated the codebase to include tests. Furthermore, the user's commits indicate a focus on improving the application's UI and internal workings.
graphqlgrpcrestwebsocketelectron-app
rickychandra/goboil
Sep 2017 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years
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