SM
Samuel Manalu speaking into a microphone at an event

SamuelManalu

Senior Software Engineer

Jakarta, Indonesia

Summary

Results-driven software engineer with 7+ years of experience designing large-scale distributed systems, financial automation pipelines and high-throughput backend platforms — recognized for technical leadership, system ownership and raising engineering quality across teams.

7+years building backend systems
500K+financial transactions reconciled every week
~100bnIDR in automated payouts every month
2.1Mrequests per minute on Tokopedia recommendations

Experience

  1. Jan 2023 — Present

    Senior Software Development Engineer

    Halodoc · Indonesia's largest digital healthcare ecosystem

    Owns financial automation: a reconciliation and disbursal engine that cut the financial close from 7 days to 2 hours, processing 500K+ transactions a week and ~100bn IDR in monthly payouts. Also builds AI products and tooling, and led observability upgrades across microservices.

    Best Employee — Nov 2023, Jun 2024, Sep 2026

  2. Apr 2021 — Jan 2023

    Backend Engineer

    Tokopedia · Indonesia's largest e-commerce platform

    Scaled the recommendation engine to 2.1M requests per minute and evolved it into a content-agnostic platform for products, videos and images, cutting memory use by 20% with a custom caching algorithm.

  3. Jun 2020 — Apr 2021

    Engineering Squad Leader

    Fintax · tax technology

    Led a team of three delivering modular tax platforms (e-SPT, e-Billing, e-Filing) certified by the Indonesian Tax Authority, including the team's CI/CD.

  4. Jun 2019 — Jun 2020

    Application Developer

    PT Jasa Teknologi Informasi IBM · subsidiary of IBM Indonesia

    Architected an award-winning enterprise training system and maintained core payroll, HR and finance applications.

Skills

Projects

Banking

BPRS HIK Syariah

Refactored legacy core-banking modules (loans, reporting, user management) to remove critical performance bottlenecks.

  • Java
  • MSSQL
IoT · fintech

UPAH

An IoT "waste-to-currency" platform with real-time sensor pipelines and an automated payout ledger.

  • IoT
  • Data pipelines
Organisation platform

DAUN

A central hub that keeps organisational data and resources in sync across regional chapters nationwide.

  • Web platform

Education

Universitas Indonesia

Information Systems · S.Kom (Bachelor of Computer Science) · 2016 — 2020

Let's talk

Open to conversations about distributed systems, fintech and engineering leadership.