Arifin Avicena
9 years shipping backend systems — e-commerce platforms, data pipelines, and webhook-driven services. Deep PHP/Magento history with active Node.js work for automation and pipelines.
Indonesia (UTC+7) — EU mornings overlap, full APAC day covered.
US teams: async-friendly.
Three projects that show how I build: pipelines, integrations, and the boring reliability work in between.
Node.js · Puppeteer · Chrome Extension
End-to-end automation of a repetitive multi-system data-entry workflow: crawl → extract → transform → submit → track.
Magento 2 · PHP · GraphQL · MySQL
Backend for flagship Magento 2 stores: custom modules, payment integrations, and production monitoring.
Automation · AI Content API · PDF Processing
Turned static PDF documents into finished podcast episodes, no manual steps.
9 years, fully remote since 2021, with experience spanning Indonesia, Singapore, and Germany.
Backend and automation work for German clients: the scraping/sync pipeline and podcast pipeline above, plus three Contao sites (trustdino.de, datana.rocks, gansel-rechtsanwaelte.de) — building content elements with HTML, CSS, and Tailwind — and Azure OpenAI chatbot and recommendation features. Also continued existing Next.js work for a client when the previous dev left.
Magento 2 backend for flagship e-commerce stores — custom modules, payment integrations, GraphQL/REST APIs, and Slack ops monitoring (detailed in E-commerce Backend at Scale above).
Admin portals, business modules, and REST APIs on Yii 2/MySQL. Optimized SQL and backend logic for faster API responses, replaced legacy iframe integrations with secure REST APIs, and built face-recognition and RBAC features.
I'm a backend engineer who gravitates to integration work — the seams between systems where data gets lost, duplicated, or silently dropped. E-commerce backends taught me reliability under real money; automation pipelines taught me to make failure visible. I write TypeScript/Node.js services now, and my PHP/Magento years mean I've already made most of the mistakes once.
I'm in UTC+7 — your EU morning standup is my afternoon, and the whole APAC day is covered. US teams work too if the role is async. Either way, you get an engineer who answers in hours, not days.