The Code Alchemist/ Nova Nurhamdani
Frontend-heavy Full-Stack Software Engineer
I build products, interfaces, and the systems behind them.
React · Next.js · TypeScript · Go · PostgreSQL
the code alchemist · est. 2010
02Selected Work
A mix of production software, independent products, and engineering experiments.
Featured build / Loomoda
Commerce Platform
A commerce platform for fashion businesses: storefront, operational admin, and a Go modular monolith covering catalog through fulfillment, invoicing and finance.
Explore the build
A multi-tenant product platform - shared foundation, per-tenant configuration, and industry modules. Travel is the first working vertical.
Next.js · TypeScript · Go · PostgreSQL
A project intelligence platform that organizes project knowledge into reusable, structured context for AI-assisted development.
Next.js · TypeScript · TanStack Query · Prisma · Supabase · React Flow
A Storybook-powered component library for Loomoda, covering reusable primitives, forms, data display, navigation, and design tokens.
React · TypeScript · Storybook · Tailwind CSS
03Real World Experience
Experience across production software, financial operations, business systems, and web applications.
Frontend Developer
Nov 2025 - Aug 2026
Frontend development on production payment infrastructure - payment history, bulk invoicing, backoffice and internal UI systems.
Areas
Frontend Developer
May 2022 - Feb 2025
Worked on financial workflows, internal tools, and mobile applications across web and React Native.
Areas
Junior Vue Developer
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Developed frontend experiences for cryptocurrency exchange and wallet platforms using Vue, translating UI/UX designs into production interfaces.
Areas
Internal Audit Manager
Jun 2016 - Jan 2020
Managed a 35-person internal audit team, conducting strategic and technical reviews across financial operations, quality controls, schedules, and budgets.
Areas
Management Information System Officer
May 2010 - Jun 2016
Managed day-to-day operations of the company information system, including system maintenance, bug fixes, reporting features, research, and data-driven reporting.
Areas
Junior Programmer (Internship)
Jun 2009 - Dec 2009
Assisted senior programmers in developing features for large client projects, gaining hands-on experience with PHP, JavaScript, AJAX, HTML and CSS.
04How I Build
Product engineering / workflow
05 Engineering Lab / Lab index & blueprints
Experiments, prototypes, and small systems built to understand how things work. Some graduate into real projects - the rest teach me something.
Total
04
Planned
02
Active
02
03 / Active experiment
Backend experiments
Focus areas
07 / SCOPEGo · PostgreSQL
04 / Active experiment
Interaction and frontend experiments
Focus areas
03 / SCOPEReact · TypeScript
06Journey
Junior Programmer
First professional programming experience.
Information Systems
Working with business systems, reporting, data, and internal tools.
Audit & Operations
Managing a 35-person internal audit team and working deeply with financial operations.
Independent Business
Exploring entrepreneurship through a small printing business.
Return to Software
Returning to the IT industry after a period of entrepreneurship.
Software Development
Building cryptocurrency products with Vue.
Frontend Engineering
Building financial products and production interfaces.
Production Software
Working on payment infrastructure and complex business workflows.
Full-Stack Product Engineering
Expanding from interfaces into APIs, data, architecture, and the systems behind products.
07 About / the person behind the code
hover / focus to meet the human
I started programming in 2009, then spent years inside information systems, internal audit, and financial operations before returning to code in 2021.
Coming back through frontend taught me how people actually interact with software, and production financial and payment systems showed me where the real problems live - the workflows behind the screen: API contracts, data models, operational edge cases.
So now I build toward both: Next.js and TypeScript on the surface, Go and PostgreSQL underneath. The Code Alchemist persona stuck around - it still fits. I like systems that feel like magic on the surface and behave like clockwork underneath.
08 / Contact / whisper a spell
I'm open to product work, engineering roles, and interesting technical challenges - especially where frontend meets real systems.
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