Software engineer focused on building precise, scalable, and elegant solutions. Crafting experiences that solve real problems.
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How I think about engineering.
Not a manifesto — just the patterns I keep returning to after years of building.
core beliefs
whoami
I'm Rizky Fajar Satriya, a software engineer based in Indonesia. I like working at the intersection of product and engineering — turning fuzzy requirements into precise, running systems.
Currently focused on backend systems, developer tooling, and making teams ship faster without sacrificing quality.
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what I actually believe
On engineering, humans, and what no tool can replace.
Engineering isn't really about building things. It's about solving problems — and problems don't live in codebases. They live in people: in the friction someone feels at 11pm trying to finish their work, in the confusion of a team that can't agree on what “done” means, in the gap between what was requested and what was actually needed.
Tools can write code. They can generate, summarise, autocomplete. But they can't sit across from someone, read between the lines, notice that the real blocker is organisational, not technical — and decide to solve that first. That part is irreducibly human.
The engineers I admire most aren't the ones who ship the most features. They're the ones who ask the right question at the right moment and make the person across the table feel genuinely understood. That's the craft I'm trying to develop.
“Any sufficiently capable AI can write the function. Only a human can know which function was worth writing.”
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