A frontend engineer who followed curiosity into production code.

I’m Samudra Zulqifli  a frontend-focused, fullstack-capable software engineer. This is less a list of things I know and more the order I learned them in, because the order explains why I build the way I do, and where I’m headed next.

Where it started

I studied physics before I studied software  years spent asking “does this actually hold up, or does it just look right?” before I ever wrote a line of production code. That habit turned out to be the most useful thing I brought into engineering.

What I learned building for real users

At Kotakode I shipped fullstack features end to end  React and Next.js on the frontend, NestJS and Express behind it  and learned what “done” means when real users, not just tests, are the ones judging it. At Brighton Real Estate I took that further: migrating a high-traffic property platform off a legacy PHP CMS to Next.js, and taking its Lighthouse score from 65 to 90+ along the way. Alongside that, I’ve built a Shopify storefront from scratch for Cleya Beauty and a CMS-driven corporate site for TSW  different problems, same discipline: understand the constraint, then design around it.

What I do today

I’m currently an IT Apps Officer at OMADATA Data Center, part of PT Dutakom Wibawa Putra, building dashboard features. Alongside that, I take on freelance projects  from landing pages to full applications.

Where this is going

I’m looking for frontend or fullstack roles  remote-first, open to the right onsite opportunity  where I can move from implementing decisions to making more of them: owning architecture, performance budgets, and the trade-offs behind a product, not just the code that ships them.