Four years and a thousand learnings later

It’s been a little over four years since I joined Bukalapak and the journey has been nothing short of a dreamy experience. Working along with talented individuals and experimenting with various ideas, I got a chance to try my hand at building new systems and features. In this post, I’ll tell you about my journey as a developer in Bukalapak. The recruitment Before recruiters contacted me, I knew Bukalapak as an e-commerce app that I always use....

January 20, 2022 · 5 min · Rizal Asrul Pambudi

One thing I regret very badly and cannot change

Regret makes me sad, but I believe that is what made me stronger and who I am today. Actually almost nothing I regret because I believe regretting something that has happened is pointless. In my opinion, there is nothing to regret as long as the experience became a lesson. I focus more on today and tomorrow. But, if there is something to regret, maybe the answer is time. Time cannot be repeated and changed....

January 19, 2022 · 1 min · Rizal Asrul Pambudi

What can you do to create an ideal world for yourself and others

Being a leader is difficult, at least that’s how I felt when I was the class leader in senior-high school. I was also clueless at that time about why I became class leader, but clearly, I was not comfortable being in charge of something. It’s different from not wanting to be responsible, let alone running away from it. I just want to be mediocre. I feel that I have participated in society by being a passive person because everyone has their role....

January 18, 2022 · 1 min · Rizal Asrul Pambudi

Ten takeaways from The Pragmatic Programmer

Actually, I’ve written about pragmatic programmers. In that article, I wrote about the definition of pragmatic, what makes a programmer pragmatic, and the characteristics of a pragmatic programmer. In this post, I will make ten takeaways from the book The Pragmatic Programmer, which can be considered as a continuation of the previous article. As programmers, we want to be spending less time in purposeless meetings, fixing annoying bugs, and more time doing what we love, which is actually programming away on fun solutions to interesting problems....

January 17, 2022 · 3 min · Rizal Asrul Pambudi

Exploring passion is a never-ending journey

When we were kids, we had some kind of hairdo catalog, but it was a profession. Starting from doctors, pilots, astronauts, ministers, to the president. Astronaut is the profession I chose as a kid. The reason is simple because I want to see outer space and the stars. Then when I moved to junior-high school, the desire to become an astronaut was changed by a doctor. In my thought, a doctor is a very noble job because it can heal the sick....

January 16, 2022 · 2 min · Rizal Asrul Pambudi