# Android Team Lead — Happy5

> Grew from intern to Team Lead over 3.5 years, leading a distributed Android engineering team for a culture & performance management platform.

Canonical page: https://laam.my.id/experience/happy5
Last updated: 2026-10-14

- **Period:** May 2020 – Oct 2023
- **Location:** Jakarta, Indonesia (Remote)

A three-and-a-half-year journey from intern to Team Lead at a Culture & Performance Management platform — earning two promotions while growing from shipping features to architecting CI/CD and leading a distributed engineering team.

- Promoted twice — intern → engineer → team lead — across a 3.5-year tenure.
- Led a distributed Android team: sprint planning, mentorship, and enforced code quality.
- Built CI/CD (CircleCI, Fastlane) and drove a major refactor to Clean Architecture.

**Impact:** Lead distributed team · CI/CD CircleCI + Fastlane

**Stack:** Kotlin, Android, CircleCI, Fastlane, Clean Architecture

## Role progression

### Android Developer — Intern

- **Period:** May 2020 – Mar 2021

- Refactored legacy codebases to improve app stability and maintainability.
- Collaborated with senior engineers to design and implement new features for the Culture & Performance Android app.

### Android Engineer

- **Period:** Mar 2021 – May 2022
- **Work type:** Remote

- Built and maintained CI/CD pipelines (CircleCI, Fastlane), significantly reducing build times and streamlining releases.
- Proposed and executed a refactor to Clean Architecture, improving testability and developer productivity.
- Delivered core features for the HR functional modules.

### Android Team Lead

- **Period:** Jun 2022 – Oct 2023
- **Work type:** Remote

- Promoted to lead a distributed team of Android engineers.
- Managed sprint planning, task distribution and on-time delivery of critical features.
- Mentored junior engineers and enforced high coding standards through comprehensive code reviews.