Hi, I'm Mega Ari.

Backend Software Engineer/Jakarta, Indonesia

Backend engineer in Jakarta. I build the services a product depends on and nobody thinks about — until they stop.

I build backend systems in Go and TypeScript — APIs serving hundreds of thousands of users, the pipelines behind them, and the cloud infrastructure they run on across Azure and GCP.

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~/megaari

go run ./cmd/api

listening on :8080

p99 42ms

300k+ users served

Engineering

5
years shipping: 300k+
users served: 2
clouds in production: 10
certifications

Go · TypeScript · Postgres · Docker

How I work

Built to stay up

Three things I care about more than the stack they are written in.

Services that stay up under load

Small deploys, boring dependencies, and a failure mode decided before the traffic arrives rather than during it.

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Systems that fail politely

Retry budgets instead of fixed attempt counts, and dead letters you can open and read — a queue that hides its failures is a queue nobody trusts.

See QueueGuard

Tokens and types before components

Get the model right and the interface follows. When something is hard to type, the model is usually wrong — that goes for a database schema as much as a design system.

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Selected work