Summary
Yakob Ubaidi is a Software Engineering Manager with over 11 years’ experience building system software and Ruby on Rails applications, middleware, and gems. He blends hands-on development and engineering leadership—having progressed from Rails developer to project manager and now managing engineering teams at Ideagen—to deliver pragmatic, test-driven solutions. Yakob emphasizes requirement engineering, maintainable test suites (refactoring rspecs), and practical UX-aware design while introducing test management and data integration strategies across projects. Based in Shah Alam, Malaysia, he routinely translates Figma designs and stakeholder needs into executable plans and mentors juniors to improve team productivity. A detail-oriented problem solver, he pairs formal software engineering training with a penchant for streamlining development processes and reducing integration risk.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Systems and Networking, 3.99, Diploma, Computer Systems and Networking, 3.99 at Kolej Universiti Poly-Tech MARA
Ijazah Sarjana Muda, software engineering, Ijazah Sarjana Muda, software engineering at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia