Hi, Akwan 👋

Akwan Maroso

Fullstack Engineer with 4+ years of experience in building scalable, high-performance systems using Golang, JavaScript, and cloud technologies like AWS and GCP. Proven success in improving system performance, integrating AI solutions, and leading teams to deliver key projects. Strong focus on optimizing processes, reducing costs, and driving innovation through technology.

Work Experience

Durioo+
Remote

Jan 2025 - Present

Software Engineer

  • Reduced home-screen load time from 40s to ~1s through performance optimization, significantly enhancing user experience and system efficiency
  • Optimized infrastructure utilization, increasing efficiency from ~20% to 80%, maximizing performance and reducing waste
  • Led migration from NestJS to Golang for the recommendation system, reducing load time from ~20s to ~1s and significantly improving performance and scalability.
Leverage Knowledge: Go, Typescript, NestJS, MongoDB, GCP.
eFishery
Remote

Jun 2023 - Dec 2024

Product Engineer

  • Collaborated within a team responsible for overseeing seafood sales and delivery processes, including fish and shrimp, ensuring system reliability for daily operations.
  • Engaging in the development of RESTful APIs, with a focus on enhancing their performance to improve overall service delivery.
  • Integrated CI/CD processes, reducing deployment time by 40% and enabling faster iterations.
  • Conducted system profiling and analysis in pre-production and production environments, reducing server costs by 75% through resource optimization and usage balancing.
  • Increased unit test coverage from 0% to 50% for legacy code, improving system reliability and reducing the number of bugs introduced during new feature development.
Leverage Knowledge: Go, Postgres, Python, MySQL, Nomad, Kubernetes, Redis, RabbitMQ.
Eduqat
Remote

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023

Software Engineer

  • Led a team of two engineers to develop and deploy advanced AI-driven features integrated with the OpenAI system, including the successful creation of a grading assignment feature that automates teacher grading, reducing manual effort by 100%.
  • Architect a robust design system for developing media conversion, asynchronous processing, and OpenAI integration, enabling seamless and efficient functionality across multiple systems.
  • Initiated and facilitated migrating a JavaScript service to a Go service, significantly enhancing system performance and scalability to 90%.
  • Collaborated closely with the CEO, CTO, and Head Engineer to spearhead the development and integration of cutting-edge AI capabilities, positioning the company for future growth in AI-powered services.
Leverage Knowledge: ReactJS, NodeJS, Go, Typescript, DynamoDB, SNS, Lambda, Serverless, AWS, OpenAI.
Bareksa
Remote

Mei 2021 - Dec 2022

Backend Engineer

  • Designed and developed an automation tool to migrate users from a PostgreSQL database to Elasticsearch, improving migration efficiency by 100% and reducing downtime during data transitions.
  • Contributed to developing the SBN service, which handles thousands of buy and sell transactions daily. Worked on improving system scalability and reliability, ensuring smooth and efficient operation of the service.
  • Implemented a new feature for the Bareksa platform that allowed users to invest in their Umrah trips. Collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and develop the feature, improving the user experience and increasing customer satisfaction.
  • Migrated a service from Node.js to Golang, enhancing performance and scalability, and improving service response times by 90%.
  • Collaborated closely with the QA team, senior engineer, and tech lead to identify and resolve bugs and improve the performance of a service. Utilized debugging tools and techniques to locate and fix issues, ensuring smooth and efficient operation of the service.
Leverage Knowledge: Go, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, Git, MongoDB, Kubernetes.

Skills

Golang
Python
Javascript
Typescript
NodeJS
ReactJS
NextJS
PostgreSQL
MySQL
ElasticSearch
Redis
Apache Kafka
MongoDB
Docker
GIT
Kibana
AWS
Kubernetes

Activities

Last Updated: Feb 8, 2025