Adylan Roaffa
Writing
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Memento Mori Death is the only certain thing in the whole universe. Between me, you, Ivan Ilyich, we will all go back to where we belong: the soil. Death is inevitable. Surprise! It is true, life takes you to unexpected places. Manifesting works, and it works in unexpected ways. MM|25 - Efficiency Efficiency is boring. MM|21 - Leadership Being a leader is not about giving the loudest roar to the pack. It is not about cracking the hardest whip to the slowest horse of the carriage. It is not about pushing and shoving. Learning to Write I can now understand what differentiates between a good expert versus a great expert: the quality of their writing. Good expert understands how the thing works; great expert understand how the thing works and how to communicate it clearly. Clarity here is the keyword. If you cannot explain a problem clearly, you may not fully understand the problem yet. A Failed Stoic This is me trying to be vulnerable. This post may offend or is too dramatic for some readers. So skip it if you don’t want to. Yet Another Blog Just like every other developers in the planet, we tend to create a brand new blog every single year.Work
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Doordash/Wolt
Software EngineerStorage Platform Team
Adjoe
Senior Software EngineerRewarded Solutions Team
Joined as a Senior Software Engineer in the Rewarded Solutions team at Adjoe, the market leader of Rewarded Ads network, closely collaborating with partners across APAC, EU, and US. Mentoring 3 other junior team members.
TikTok
Software EngineerData Service Team
Acts as the technical owner of the global video metadata indexing service, handling millions of QPS; responsible for performance optimization, feature development, incident resolution, and task planning.
Shopee
Senior Software EngineerShopeePay Wallet Team
Developed and maintained ShopeePay Wallet backend services, handling hundreds of thousands of requests daily.
Dekoruma
Full Stack Engineer, Internship
Developed a vendor matchmaking service to automate the project's vendor selection process to optimize the supply team & design-and-build team procurement business processes.
GIK Labs, University Of Chicago
Research Assistant
Assisted Ph.D. students in designing machine learning models and measuring the inference time of the machine learning models to create a comparative analysis for the tail latency prediction model.