# Ichwan Palongengi > Software Engineer at Audicus Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ichwan I am a Software Engineer with passion in learning and creating new things. I believe that the best engineers are those who are open to learning about new technologies and strive to create impacts with the projects they are working on. Although my experience are mostly in the backend development, I am always open and curious for new opportunities where I can learn new things from different fields, especially in full-stack development, data analysis/engineering. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Audicus Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States ### Software Engineer @ Axoni Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | New York, New York, United States - Collaborated in a team of 10 with the world’s largest equity derivatives clearing organization to develop a platform to replace its existing security lending infrastructure currently used by at least 85 program members and processed a daily average of $126 billion in loan values using Scala, Akka, Kafka, Tapir and Play Framework - Developed and tested various integral features of the security lending platform with reusability in mind, including the development of corporate actions, complex workflows related to account transfer and removal, batch jobs with specific trigger times during the business day, reference data ingestion, creation of new API endpoints and generation of outbound FIXML message - Worked closely with external product owner and internal enterprise solution team to disambiguate descriptions in the user stories and in many occasions discovered additional requirements for acceptance criteria - Improved the code quality of the security lending platform by improving error and warning messages raised to allow for better triaging of future errors and by refactoring redundant method calls into reusable methods to allow for easier update in the future - Fixed multitudes of critical bugs that affected the behavioral correctness of the security lending platform which could lead to erroneous calculation and their sending to downstream systems ### Software Test Engineer @ Axoni Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States - Spearheaded the development of test automation framework, from library choices to coding conventions, for three concurrent projects: the AxCore platform, the core distributed ledger software, and two projects involving some of the world’s biggest financial institutions, reducing the turnaround time between testing each build and saving time for testers to address new bugs - Decreased the time taken to run regression tests for AxCore by porting disjointed test scripts from Bash to Python and consolidating them under one test harness using PyTest library - Designed and implemented the UI test suite for Veris, the equity swaps platform, using Cypress and Javascript and set up the CI/CD pipeline to automatically trigger the running of the aforementioned test suite upon the release of a new UI build - Developed and maintained test suites for testing both the Financial Information Exchange (FIX) server and UI portions of the bond issuance platform using Scala with ZIO library; and Javascript with Cypress, respectively - Approved Change Management tickets in the role as QA Delegate to ensure compliance with the SOC2 standard ### Software Engineering Intern @ Flashpoint Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | New York, New York, United States Flashpoint delivers Business Risk Intelligence (BRI) to empower business units and functions across organizations to make better decisions and mitigate risk. The company's unique Deep & Dark Web data, expertise, and technology enable our customers to glean intelligence that informs risk and protects their ability to operate. Fortune 500 and government customers utilize Flashpoint's intelligence across the enterprise, including bolstering cybersecurity, confronting fraud, detecting insider threats, enhancing physical security, assessing M&A opportunities, and addressing vendor risk and supply chain integrity. For corporations with limited experience availing themselves of Deep & Dark Web intelligence, Flashpoint has tailored offerings that deliver comprehensive reporting and monitoring on their behalf. Flashpoint is backed by Greycroft Partners, TechOperators, K2 Intelligence, Jump Capital, Leaders Fund, Bloomberg Beta, and Cisco Investments. For more information visit www.flashpoint-intel.com or follow us on Twitter at @FlashpointIntel ### Software Developer Intern @ EnerKnol Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Brooklyn, New York, United States - Improved the client-facing interface of the platform by performing bug fixes to the existing modules and introducing new features using Flask, jQuery, and Elasticsearch - Increased the value of the platform by creating the first few batches of new scraper scripts that gather data from foreign data sources using Python and Scrapy framework ### Student Full Stack Developer @ CUNY Tech Prep Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States - Selected to competitive full stack JavaScript training program that prepares students for careers in software engineering - Learned in-demand technologies like React and Node + Express and processes for design, implementation, testing, and deployment - Collaborated in a team of four to develop a web application using React, Express, and Sequelize.js where soccer players and enthusiasts could go to create and join different soccer teams and leagues around their area and keep track of their statistics ### Software Developer Intern @ New York City Transit Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States Developed an internal hybrid app using Angular and Ionic Framework deployed in iOS devices for the use of approximately 15 personnel within the Passenger Environmental Survey group ### Application Developer Intern @ New York City Transit Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | New York, New York, United States - Developed an internal Microsoft Access application using VBA and SQL to track the number of hours expended by each individual members of the ~100 persons Engineering Services subdivision - Performed intense data entry to the database that power the back-end of the application being developed with the most up-to-date data from other internal tracking systems ### Assistant System Administrator @ The City College of New York Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | New York, New York, United States - Managed ~ 12 Linux computers within a CS research laboratory - Migrated server that host the research lab website which included reconfiguration of user information schema in LDAP, installation of relevant packages, and staggered data transfer from the old server - Installed the open-source OpenVZ virtualization technology on the new server as a replacement for the proprietary Virtual Box application which allowed for the creation of virtual containers that took the functionalities of 3 decommissioned computers at the laboratory ### Tech Support Intern @ NYC Department of Education Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Queens, New York, United States - Managed ~ 50 recently purchased iPad Minis by performing updates on their applications and software firmwares; and installing new applications that are deemed necessary by teachers at the school - Provided troubleshooting support to teachers for technology-related issues that might otherwise impede their ability to teach ### Summer Intern @ New York City Transit Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | New York, New York, United States - Kept track of delivery and consumption of fuels, coolant, and transmission fluids at Manhattanville Bus Depot and reconciles measurements taken by mechanics at the ground floor with the computerized system to ensure compliance with the regulations set by Environmental Analysts at the MTA - Entered the daily attendance of bus operators assigned to the depot in a database for future utilization ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science The City College of New York Jan 2012 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ipalongengi - GitHub: https://github.com/ipalongengi - Website: https://www.ichwan.xyz --- Source: https://flows.cv/ichwan JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ichwan/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23