About
The Person Behind the Commits

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years in global fintech and travel, working from frontend platforms to data pipelines. I build telemetry, developer tooling and full-stack systems, and I like closing the gap between a fast interface and a resilient backend.
I’m Clinford, a Senior Software Engineer. I joined Traveloka in 2018 as a Software Engineer (Web) and spent almost seven years there, growing from building partner-facing products to leading frontend modernization and web performance work for millions of users.
Since March 2025 I’ve been at Binance, working on global identity verification: native NFC integrations, a real-time telemetry platform, and schema-driven, Git-backed configuration. I use AI where it saves real time, such as incident triage and exploring unfamiliar code.
I started out teaching: before software was my job, I was a teaching assistant and lab coordinator at BINUS University. I still mentor on ADPList, where I was a Top 100 mentor in late 2024 and early 2025, and I give talks on web performance.
How I Work
- 01
Clarity over cleverness
Simple systems are easier to trust, change and hand over.
- 02
Ship, measure, refine
Small releases, honest metrics, steady improvement.
- 03
Craft is a feature
Performance, accessibility and detail are part of the product, not polish.
Experience
Mar 2025 – Present
Senior Frontend Engineer
Binance
Global identity verification and compliance products: eKYC, native NFC integrations, telemetry and developer tooling.
- Led frontend architecture and delivery of eKYC and native NFC integrations; global KYC pass rates rose by up to 17.5 percentage points.
- Built Signal, a multi-tenant real-time telemetry platform, and cut the time to detect incidents from days to under 5 minutes.
- Designed schema-driven, Git-backed configuration so regulatory updates ship without code deployments.
- Introduced AI-assisted workflows for requirements analysis, codebase exploration and incident triage, reducing development and triage cycle times by 70–80%.
- Built automated testing infrastructure and self-service operational tools that removed routine manual interventions.
- TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Mini Program
- Node.js
- Kafka
- ClickHouse
May 2018 – Mar 2025
Software Engineer (Web)
Traveloka
Frontend platform, modernization and web performance for accommodation partner products and a React Native messaging platform.
Software Engineer III (Web), Tech EvangelistJan 2023 – Mar 2025
- Worked with the Accommodation Front-End Web domain lead on the tech roadmap, and with the infrastructure team on frontend best practices.
- Maintained the Front-End Web infrastructure and audited the tech stack the team relied on.
- Cut local build time by up to 64.18%, memory usage by about 49.15% and vulnerabilities per audited package by about 42.2%, and made test results consistent locally and in CI.
- Mentored junior team members and spoke at DevFest Jakarta 2023 on Core Web Vitals and INP.
Software Engineer III (Web)Sep 2021 – Dec 2022
- Subject matter expert for the Accommodation Supply subdomain, on both the technical and product sides.
- Managed the frontend project timeline with the domain lead so product work shipped on time, and supported end-to-end frontend development in the subdomain.
- Received the Traveloka Grit Award in January 2022 and spoke at Google I/O Extended Jakarta 2022.
Software Engineer II (Web)Mar 2020 – Aug 2021
- Assessed Front-End Web Supply projects and resources for quarterly planning, and kept the TERA Web release schedule with the backend release manager and QA.
- Frontend person in charge for the Supply (Direct Sourcing and Business Operations) mission teams.
- Engineering person in charge of the Messaging Platform project, a React Native app with real-time WebSocket channels and GraphQL.
- Contributed to and maintained District, an internal tool for the mobile app.
Software Engineer I (Web)May 2018 – Feb 2020
- Built and maintained the TERA website for accommodation partners with React, Next.js, TypeScript and Redux, and its React Native app for Android and iOS.
- Wrote unit tests with Jest, reviewed code, wrote documentation, handled incidents and released features to production.
- Migrated 11 pages (about 35 man-weeks) from the old Apache Velocity monorepo to the Front-End Web repositories.
- Contributed to and maintained Soya, an internal web tool.
- Owned the migration strategy for 100+ legacy pages from a Velocity monolith to React and Next.js, without a disruptive full rewrite.
- Led Core Web Vitals and performance work on high-traffic, conversion-critical pages.
- Grew from Software Engineer I to III and Tech Evangelist, taking on roadmap, infrastructure and mentoring work along the way.
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- React Native
- Redux
- Jest
Aug 2024 – Jan 2025
Mentor
ADPList
Free one-to-one mentoring for early-career engineers.
- Helped mentees improve their frontend skills, prepare for interviews and plan their careers.
- Named a Top 100 ADPList mentor for October–December 2024 and January–March 2025.
Feb 2016 – Nov 2017
Laboratory Teaching Assistant (Periodic)
Bank Central Asia (BCA Learning Institute)
Taught BCA scholarship students in the PPTI programme, in collaboration with BINUS University.
- Taught programming and databases to BCA scholarship students: algorithms in C and C++, and SQL Server.
- Taught multimedia systems with Flash.
Sep 2014 – Feb 2018
Teaching Assistant to Operations Management Officer
BINUS University, Software Laboratory Center
Taught programming, web development and databases, then coordinated subjects and ran lab operations.
Operations Management Officer / Assistant SupervisorMar 2016 – Feb 2018
- Ran the daily practicum activities and scheduled teaching assistants across the IT college curriculum.
- Assigned case makers and evaluators for practicum tasks and examinations.
- Guided teaching assistants as their mentor (protégé programme).
- Worked with Bank Central Asia to assign instructors for the PPTI programme, and supervised student attendance records.
- Drew up the strategic plan for the coming year.
Subject CoordinatorSep 2015 – Feb 2016
- Kept laboratory material standards high, including examination material and criteria.
- Coordinated teaching assistants so IT exams, projects and assignments were made and marked to the same standard.
- Researched and improved laboratory material: database design, object-oriented analysis and design, data warehouse, IBM DB2 and Adobe Flash.
- Counseled and trained teaching assistants to create and teach laboratory material.
Full-Time Teaching AssistantSep 2014 – Aug 2015
- Taught and assisted students in lab sessions on programming (C, C++, C#, VB, .NET, Java), databases (SQL Server, MySQL, MongoDB, ETL, SSIS), web development (PHP, JSP, Laravel, HTML, CSS, JavaScript) and multimedia design (Photoshop, Flash).
- Designed, created and marked examinations and assignments.
- Awarded Best Teaching Index Assistant in August 2015.
- Grew from teaching assistant to supervising lab operations over three and a half years.
Skills & Tools
Frontend
- React
- Next.js
- TypeScript
- Vue.js
- React Native
- Redux
- Zustand
- TanStack Query
- WebSocket
- Tailwind CSS
- Mini Program
Architecture & platform
- Frontend architecture
- System design
- Schema-driven UI
- SDK development
- Design systems
- Developer experience
- RFCs & ADRs
Backend & data
- Node.js
- Java
- REST & GraphQL
- Kafka
- Flink
- ClickHouse
- PostgreSQL
- Redis
- AWS
Performance & quality
- Core Web Vitals
- Playwright
- Jest
- Vitest
- CI/CD
- Code review
Applied AI
- LLM workflows
- Prompt engineering
- Automated triage bots
- RAG
Education
BINUS Business School
Master’s degree, Business Management (online)
May 2017 – Nov 2018
BINUS University
Bachelor’s degree, Computer Science
Sep 2013 – Feb 2017
Talks
Performance: Core Web Vitals Top Recommendations + INP
DevFest Jakarta · 2023
Bridging the Gap: Making It Easier to Build for the Web
Google I/O Extended Jakarta · 2022
Introduction to Web Programming
Niagahoster Break Talk 12.0
Awards
Top 100 Mentor
ADPList · Jan–Mar 2025
Top 100 Mentor
ADPList · Oct–Dec 2024
Grit Award
Traveloka · 2022
Best Teaching Index Assistant
BINUS University · 2015
Training
AWS Well-Architected Best Practices
Amazon Web Services
Developing on AWS
Amazon Web Services
Architecting on AWS
Amazon Web Services
AWS Technical Essentials
Amazon Web Services
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