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Edbert Suwandi

Experience

Fields I wasn’t trained for.

A shop’s backend, a room of eighteen engineers, fixing a broken heart (literally) — and learning my way in.

The stone in the picture is me. Each chapter below adds something around it, so scroll and the picture fills in as I did.

The first stone is me: Belitung granite. My family is Hakka — 客家, “guest families” — from Belitung, by way of Jakarta.

01 — High school

A page and a stylesheet.

High school, Jakarta

It started with plain HTML and CSS: write a page, save, refresh, see what changed. That loop never really stopped.

Learned · HTML · CSS

In the picture

A horizon behind the stone.

Before that first page, there was nowhere in particular to look. After it, there was a direction.

02 — 2024

Learning how a shop actually runs.

Europe Enchanting · Software Engineer Intern · remote

My first real job was remote, for a Sydney e-commerce company. I automated the migration of 20,000+ product SKUs onto Shopify at 100% accuracy, and turned hours of manual data entry into minutes.

Learned · Shopify API · Node.js · E-commerce operations

In the picture

Water, and the stone's reflection in it.

The first time my work ran in the real world and I could see it mirrored back: a live store, with real customers buying from it.

03 — 2025

Learning to lead engineers.

Biotech Futures · Project lead · capstone

A mentoring platform for 500+ students and mentors, built in 13 weeks by a team of 18 engineers across backend, frontend and algorithms. Django on the backend, React and Vite on the front, deployed on Microsoft Azure. Graded HD (90), and the client was happy with what we handed over.

Learned · Leading a team · Python · Django · React · Vite · Microsoft Azure

In the picture

Other stones rise around the first.

Eighteen engineers, and I was no longer the only stone in the picture. Leading meant arranging us so the whole thing held together.

04 — Mar–May 2026, then Aug 2026 — now

Learning the heart.

CathRx · Software Engineer Intern → Junior Software Engineer

Before the code made sense I had to learn the heart: how it conducts electricity, what pulsed field ablation does, and enough electrical engineering to debug a 1-Wire protocol on an oscilloscope, down to the waveform.

Learned · Cardiac electrophysiology · Pulsed field ablation · Embedded C++ · Oscilloscope debugging

In the picture

A pulse ripples out from the first stone.

A heartbeat. I had to understand one, as electricity moving through tissue, before any of the code made sense.

Next

Still painting.

The rest of the picture isn’t finished. If you’re working on something I’d have to learn a new field for, I’d like to hear about it.

edbertswd@gmail.comThings I build for myself