Yahya J. Aifit

Software Engineer (Front-End), currently living and working in Indonesia

Software Engineer with more than 10 years of experience in front-end engineering, design systems, and web application development across digital agencies, startups, and large-scale technology companies.

Beyond professional work, I independently build and maintain personal projects focused on AI integration and modern web technologies, combining engineering depth with a product-minded approach.

Recognition

This website earned an Honorable Mention from Awwwards, featured on Awesome Vue and Webdesigner Depot.

Experience

Company	Duration
Freelance Software Engineer (Front-End) Focused on front-end development, including UI engineering, design systems, web applications, and custom theme development, primarily using Vue.js, Astro, and WordPress. In the meantime, I continue building personal projects, exploring AI integration and modern web technologies.	January 2026 - Now
Planned Career Break Took a planned career break after more than 10 years of continuous professional experience to recharge and focus on independent product development. During this time, I built and grew Netizen LOL, my personal blog, by building new features, writing articles, and creating visuals.	February 2025 - January 2026
Commslayer Commslayer is an AI-powered helpdesk for Shopify merchants. As a front-end engineer, I worked closely with the founders, designer, and back-end engineers to build and improve the product. Built customer-facing features using Vue.js within a Ruby on Rails application. Enhanced existing user interfaces by improving usability and adding new functionality. Performed manual end-to-end testing to validate changes before release.	April 2024 - January 2025
Bukalapak Bukalapak is one of Indonesia's leading e-commerce platforms. I started as a UI Engineer and progressed into a Software Engineer (Front-End) over six years, moving across different teams and products along the way.	August 2017 - December 2023
Earlier Experience Before joining Bukalapak, I spent five years as a Front-End Developer at multinational and local digital agencies and startups, including VP Digital, Mirum Agency, Dentsu, and Bridestory. I delivered digital campaigns and web experiences for brands including Nestlé, The Body Shop, Samsung, Changi Airport, Uniqlo, Panasonic, Revlon, Nissan, and Novotel, while at Bridestory I focused primarily on improving existing interfaces and building landing pages.	January 2012 - July 2017

For further details, you can view my Resume.

Services

Why Me

Software Engineer (Front-End) with over 10 years of professional experience. Have expertise in using Vue.js framework, creating WordPress themes, building with Astro, and utilizing website builder platforms.

What I Do

I take on both long-term and short-term web development projects. Whether it's a quick fix or a full product build, I'm here to see how we can work together.

Professional Projects

Yes I Do

Weton Calculation Tools

Matchmaking prediction tool based on Weton calculations from the Javanese calendar, designed with the goal of enhancing user engagement. Developed within the Wix environment and powered by the Velo platform.

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Yes I Do

Marketplace Page

Utilizes the Wix Database to create interactive store pages that contain data from several marketplaces in Indonesia. Additionally, users can search for products and filter them by rating and price.

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Bukalapak

Admin Dashboard for Bukalapak Insight

Online repository platform employed by the UX research team for the purpose of aggregating research findings. Built with NuxtJS and powered by the real-time capabilities of the Firebase database.

Internal

Bukalapak

Bukalapak Company Profile

Collaborate with Designer and Front-end Engineer to built a company profile website for Bukalapak

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Bukalapak

Bazaar Design System

One of my responsibilities as a UX Engineer was maintaining a design system called Bazaar, which involved bug fixing, creating new components, and documenting their usage. This design system was utilized across almost every department in my workplace.

Internal

Bukalapak

BukaPotensi

Website for Bukalapak talent team to show their programs. Built with WordPress, and use custom Gutenberg Blocks.

Deprecated

Portfolio

Personal

Tanya AI

AI assistant for my personal blog, Netizen LOL, that lets visitors search and ask questions about its content. Built with OpenClaw and Vue.js, using local local Markdown files as its RAG knowledge base, available as an embedded Widget for article-specific and site-wide use, and a Standalone for site-wide only.

Read the article about this project for more details.

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Commercial

Commslayer

Commslayer is an AI-powered helpdesk for Shopify merchants. I had the opportunity to work closely with the internal backend team, designer, and both founders to develop new features and work on UI/UX improvements. The technologies used are Ruby on Rails and Vue.js.

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Personal

YJA.me

My current portfolio page, inspired by the appearance of operating system's GUI. It follows the Atomic Design methodology to create components and also earned an Honorable Mention from Awwwards.

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Commercial

Go Rental Indonesia

Medan-based online booking platform for airport transfers and car rentals, developed using React.js.

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Personal

Netizen LOL

Built with WordPress. My personal blog about vacations, photo galleries, and other personal topics. This blog is still in active development, and the progress is tracked on Trello.

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Personal

ARWAN.me

Content-focused blog and portfolio built with Eleventy (previously used Jekyll). Source code is available on GitHub.

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