Adylan Roaffa Ilmy

Work Experience

1. Adjoe

   Senior Software Engineer · Rewarded Solutions Team

   Hamburg, Germany · Jan 2025–Present

   • 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.
   • Led the end-to-end "Playtime with Multiplier" feature development. Working closely with backend and mobile engineers, the product director, cross-functional tech leads, and external partners to drive the project from conception to delivery.
   • Led the end-to-end project to decouple our architecture from third party MMP services to do self attribution which led to 100% attribution guarantee. Acted as the architect and project manager that involved 5 different teams.

   • MySQL
   • DynamoDB
   • SQS
   • SNS
   • Kafka
   • Terraform
   • Go
   • Druid
   • Kubernetes
2. TikTok

   Software Engineer · Data Service Team

   Singapore · Feb 2023–Jan 2025

   • 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.
   • Led and managed a team of 2 software engineers and 1 SRE.
   • Spearheaded video metadata indexing storage optimization initiative, reducing annual storage cost by $2M+ USD through improved data storage solutions and strategies.
   • Architected and delivered video data placement strategies metadata to be utilized for regional data placement and tiered (hot/cold) storage strategies—successfully eliminating the need for storage scaling for the next X years.
   • Designed and launched a self-service video metadata field onboarding workflow, cutting manual effort by 90% (2h → 5m) through conducting internal user interviews, designing new flows, and experimenting through rapid MVP iterations.
   • Recognized with TikTok's 2023 Spot Award for outstanding technical contribution and impact.

   • MySQL
   • Redis
   • Kafka
   • Go
3. Shopee

   Senior Software Engineer · ShopeePay Wallet Team

   Singapore · July 2020-Jan 2023

   • Developed and maintained ShopeePay Wallet backend services, handling hundreds of thousands of requests daily.
   • Improved wallet reconciliation report generation time by 92% from (1h-> 5m) using a MapReduce-based approach, significantly enhancing data processing efficiency.
   • Led the migration of the Coins Shared Service from a Python BFF monolith to scalable Golang microservices, achieving throughput of 5K+ user requests/second.
   • Designed and implemented a stress testing framework for the Coins Shared Service, enabling accurate resource estimation for high-traffic campaign days—cutting CPU usage by ~50% during peak loads.

   • MySQL
   • Redis
   • Go
4. Dekoruma

   Full Stack Engineer, Internship

   Indonesia · Summer 2019

   • 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.
   • Involved in end-to-end frontend and backend development. Used Python, Django, and React.

   • Python
   • Django
   • React
5. GIK Labs, University Of Chicago

   Research Assistant

   Remote · 2018-2019

   • 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.

Technologies and Languages

Databases

MySQL, Postgres, Redis, DynamoDB

DevOps/Infra

Kafka, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Git

Frameworks

FastAPI, Django, React, Gin

Languages

Go, Python, Rust, TypeScript

Education