Gabriella Franchesca: Lead Backend Engineer in Jakarta

Gabriella Franchesca is a Lead Backend Engineer in Jakarta, Indonesia. She leads mobile, backend and frontend teams, turns business processes into software, and uses AI daily for brainstorming, flow design, API design and automation. She builds Golang microservices, Laravel and Next.js apps, Flutter mobile apps, Kafka streaming, Kubernetes infrastructure and AI agents for fintech, insurance, media, F&B and e-commerce products. Curious about everything new in AI and blockchain.

Open to freelance, contract and lead roles. Remote or Jakarta. Email [email protected], or read the full portfolio.

Projects

• EL JOHN: Voting, event tickets, a shop, live streams and magazines for EL JOHN Pageants, on the web and in a Flutter app. (Lead Engineer · backend)
• Serbagus: EL JOHN's big sibling: paid voting, event tickets and a marketplace that many organisers can run on one platform. (Lead Engineer · backend)
• PSMTI: The website and Flutter app for PSMTI, the Indonesian Chinese Clan Social Association. (Lead Engineer · backend & web)
• BNI Life mobile app: JIVVA, BNI Life's customer app: policies, premiums and claims in one place, on Android and iOS. (Lead Engineer · backend & mobile)
• Startner: A curated digital agency platform, like Upwork but with hand-picked partners. Three apps: clients, partners and admins. (CTO · team of 3 to 5 engineers and UI/UX)
• SŌTEN: Company profile for a luxury yakiniku and A5 wagyu charcoal grill in Jakarta. (Full Stack Developer · CMS · DevOps)
• Kedai Cao An: Company profile for a homey Peranakan kopitiam with two branches in Jakarta. (Full Stack Developer · UI/UX · DevOps)
• Tableside: A neighbourhood food marketplace where home kitchens, cafés and pop-ups open small-batch drops for pickup. (Full Stack Developer · UI/UX · DevOps)
• HashiPost: An all-in-one social media scheduler: plan once, publish to YouTube Shorts, Instagram and TikTok. (Full Stack Developer · UI/UX · DevOps)
• Niibu: An AI personal concierge: one conversation that searches, books, plans and organises your everyday. Launching soon. (Engineer)
• BDA Group: B2B building-materials e-commerce: inventory, multi-tier pricing, bulk orders and logistics. (Technical Lead · team of 5)
• Interbox: Portfolio platform for 500+ interior designers and 1,000+ projects, plus a business version for commercial spaces. (DevOps Engineer · Full Stack Developer)
• Tabsera: School management and LMS: teachers, students, parents, schedules, lessons and permissions. Under NDA, so the screens stay private. (Frontend Developer · CMS)
• Qeong: Wholesale e-commerce. I looked after both the back end and the front end of the site. (Fullstack Website Developer)
• Creme and Tonic: A WooCommerce skincare store. Not everything is a Kafka cluster, and that's fine. (WordPress Developer · E-commerce Specialist · freelance)
• CONSIGNT: A marketplace app for used electronics in Indonesia. My capstone for Kampus Merdeka × Dicoding. (Android & multi-platform developer)
• Ditonton: A Flutter app built for Dicoding's Flutter Expert class. (Flutter developer)

Experience

• Lead Engineer, PT. Universe Solusi Digital (May 2025 to now). I lead a mixed team of mobile, backend and frontend engineers, usually across a few projects at once. Some I lead end to end, others I join as a hands-on engineer.
• Full Stack Engineer, PT. Universe Solusi Digital (Feb 2023 to May 2025). Proofs of concept, internal tools, and the Golang systems around Mambu core banking behind a digital banking super app. Plus the backend behind app.eljohn.co.id.
• Full Stack Engineer, Freelance (Jun 2021 to now). I work closely with the founders and co-founders of several businesses, from the first brainstorm all the way to production. Custom code, WordPress sites and some web3.
• Fullstack Website Developer, Qeong (PT. Qeongmas Indonesia) (May 2022 to Jan 2023). I looked after both the back end and the front end of the company's site.
• Android & Multi-Platform Developer, Kampus Merdeka × Dicoding (Aug 2021 to Jan 2022). A six-month Android and multi-platform programme. I finished as one of the top graduates.

Quick answers

• Who is Gabriella Franchesca? Gabriella Franchesca (Gaby) is a Lead Backend Engineer based in Jakarta, Indonesia. She is Lead Engineer at PT. Universe Solusi Digital, where she leads mobile, backend and frontend engineers, and she has shipped 30+ products since 2021, from core-banking services to insurance, media and e-commerce apps.
• What kind of engineer is Gabriella? Gabriella is a backend-first engineering lead who also works full stack. She designs Golang microservices, Kafka event streams and the Kubernetes they run on, builds Laravel and Next.js apps, and turns business processes into working software and systems.
• Is Gabriella available for hire, freelance or contract work? Yes. Gabriella is open to freelance, contract and lead roles, remote or in Jakarta. She has freelanced since 2021, working directly with founders from the first brainstorm to production, and she is on Upwork. The quickest way to reach her is email: [email protected].
• What tech stack does Gabriella work with? Gabriella works daily with Go (Golang), Laravel and PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes. She has also shipped with RabbitMQ, Confluent, Next.js, React, Vue, Flutter, Kotlin, Python, LangChain, Qdrant, AWS, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Midtrans, Xendit, Stripe and Mambu core banking.