About

Ardiansyah, or Ard for short, is a highly motivated and adaptable software developer with almost 8 years of professional coding experience. While his specialty lies in back-end development, he is also skilled in front-end development, machine learning, and big data projects. In his free time, he enjoys researching new technologies, writing articles, and maintaining personal side projects. Ard is the founder and developer of remotework.fyi, an initiative product that started as a remote job aggregator in early 2019 and pivoted to become a remote work collaboration platform in mid-2019. Leveraging his knowledge in product development, web scraping, and remote work, Ard has successfully led the development of this platform. Before founding remotework.fyi, Ard worked as a back-end developer for pleased.com, where he was part of a global team for customer service SaaS used by millions of users. He designed and developed Twilio integration for call status webhook and agent assignment systems and developed a feature for assigning a chat to a group of agents. Ard also refactored and improved logging for several parts of legacy code on several services. He reviewed other developer's code, coached and assisted junior developers, and leveraged his experience mostly in distributed systems and collaboration with global talent. As a self-employed software consultant and developer, Ard provided end-to-end software solutions for various personal clients, from government to private companies. He designed and developed systems for digitizing and integrating all business processes, automating digitizing processes, and building a machine learning model for a proof of concept project of a system for classifying complaints from customers SMS based on sentiment. Ard also managed small teams, code review, and usually took on a team leader role. He leveraged his experience mostly in complex data modeling, translating business processes, and project management. Ard holds a bachelor's degree from Universitas Komputer Indonesia and has a tech stack that includes backend, software engineering, big data, frontend, ML, integration, research scientist, web, and Spark. He is not interested in on-site jobs and is a remote work advocate.