Brian W Tjahjadi

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Shopstack AI

Software Engineer Intern

Aug 2026 - Oct 2026 ☆ NYC, USA (remote)

Built and shipped merchant platform (javascript + react + node SDKs, APIs, enterprise dashboard, etc.) for our first clients and performing R&D into AI browser automation, CAPTCHAs, anti-bot systems and fingerprinting.

    PT Maestro Proxima Indonesia

    Software Engineer Intern

    Mar 2026 - Aug 2026 ☆ Jakarta, Indonesia

    Worked with senior engineer and PM to build an AI-powered PropTech platform end-to-end, from customer discovery and product decisions to engineering (frontend + backend) and deployment (cloud + ci/cd).

    • Developed a Gemini/LangGraph AI assistant for web and WhatsApp; benchmarked agent architectures (intent routing, ReAct) / models (Gemini, Kimi, Mistral, etc.), built vectorless RAG that reduced knowledge-base conversation costs by ≈70%, and developed proprietary self-hosted LangGraph/Fastify AI runtime with observability.
    • Designed Xendit payment and subscription infrastructure with cards, QRIS, trials, recurring billing, webhooks, and concurrency-safe background processing.
    • Drove WhatsApp migration from a third-party BSP to Meta Cloud API, adding native messaging features while saving ≈Rp1.000.000/month in fixed costs.
    • Built the frontend with React and drove the migration from React Router v6 to TanStack Start, redesigning rendering and data fetching around prerendering, client-side rendering, prefetching, query / route caching, and Suspense to reduce runtime infrastructure cost while maintaining page-load performance.

    oNex

    Software Engineer Intern

    Apr 2025 - Dec 2025 ☆ Sydney, AU

    Gained hands-on startup experience across ML, mobile, and web development, contributing to a recommendation system, React Native app, and company landing page.

    • Architected and implemented data pipeline for ingesting and preprocessing mobile time-series data on AWS and railway, supporting continuous online learning of downstream ML models.
    • Built personalized content-based recommendation service with Python, embedding models, and vector databases for fast ANN vector search and tailored user recommendations, integrating with our backend using gRPC.
    • Rewritten non-composited CSS animation background on landing page using WebGL2, delivering GPU-accelerated graphics and eliminating lag on low-spec devices.
    • Collected user feedback and proposed landing page improvements to boost engagement; implemented features using Astro, TypeScript, TailwindCSS, and SolidJS via an island architecture.

    Sydney Interplanetary Rover Initiative (SIRI)

    Software Engineer

    Apr 2024 - Dec 2025 ☆ Sydney, AU

    Founding software team member, building an autonomous rover software stack from the ground up. Developed rover controls and autonomous behaviors, led base station UI development

    • Led development of base station control panel for remote command and telemetry of our flagship rover using Foxglove, React, and ROS2.
    • Implemented rover's autonomous AI in the form of a behavior tree using BehaviorTree.CPP and BehaviorTree.ROS in C++.
    • Developed ROS2 C++ controllers for autonomous and manual rover steering (spin and 4-wheel convergent ackermann) alongside ESTOP and keep alive mechanisms for rover safety using Python and C++ ROS2 nodes.
    • Upgraded simulation and deployment workflows to follow ROS2 best practices (upgrading to Python, xacro urdfs, docker).

    USYD Cybersecurity Society

    Software Engineer

    Aug 2024 - Jan 2025 ☆ Sydney, AU

    • Built Django REST API endpoints to serve team and member data from PostgreSQL.
    • Added tooling to auto-generate database schema diagrams, improving internal documentation.

    Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA)

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Mar 2024 - Jun 2024 ☆ Sydney, AU

    Created automated data retrieval and crossmatching Python program using the Astroquery CASDA API to investigate viability of exoplanet detection by radio waves, found 2 candidate planetary systems satisfying criteria.

    Sydney Institute for Astronomy (SIfA)

    Undergraduate Research Assistant

    Sept 2023 - Jan 2024 ☆ Sydney, AU

    Analysed MEERKAT radio telescope time series data using pandas, numpy, and matplotlib to document changes from a particular fast radio burst (FRB) from 2019 to 2022, narrowing down theoretical models for the FRB's source.

    Coles Group

    Service and Trolleys Team Member

    Mar 2023 - Sept 2023 ☆ Sydney, AU