Hilman Ahmad
Frontend engineer specialising in Angular, with backend experience in Spring Boot.
Summary
I'm a frontend engineer who likes building interfaces that stay dependable once real users and real data hit them. I started in physics, then spent my master's researching computational nano-electronics in electrical engineering — which is probably why I still think of software the way I once thought about circuits: as systems that need to hold up under real load, not just work in theory.
Today I'm a frontend engineer at CFI Financial Group, specialising in Angular. Before that, I was technical lead on Lestar at Mandrill Tech, an AI-driven SaaS platform, where I owned delivery from Figma prototypes to production, set up a four-week release cycle that shipped with zero critical rollbacks, and picked up Spring Boot and REST API design along the way. I also mentored newer developers through structured code review.
Outside work, I build small projects with a group of friends under TornadoByte, and I'm continuing to deepen my Spring Boot skills on the backend side.
Experience
- —Develop user interfaces and solutions for web applications according to specified business requirements.
- —Collaborate with back-end developers and UI/UX designers to translate design mockups and functional requirements into functional user interfaces.
- —Implement responsive design principles to ensure optimal viewing experiences across various devices and screen sizes.
- —Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code adhering to coding standards and best practices.
- —Optimize application performance by identifying and addressing bottlenecks and implementing performance improvements.
- —Conduct thorough testing of applications to ensure cross-browser compatibility, usability, and reliability.
- —Stay up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in Angular development and front-end technologies.
- —Work closely with the QA team to identify and address any bugs or issues in the application.
- —Participate in code reviews, identifying anti‐patterns in the code and refactoring opportunities.
- —Technical Lead & Scrum Master: Leading a cross-functional team (frontend, backend, QA) on Lestar, an AI-driven SaaS platform, owning end-to-end delivery from Figma prototyping to Angular and Spring Boot implementation.
- —Release Engineering: Designed and enforced a structured 4-week release cycle integrated with CI/CD pipelines, delivering consistent production deployments with zero critical rollbacks since rollout.
- —Full Stack Development: Build Angular frontend features with NgRx state management and TailwindCSS, and develop production REST APIs in Spring Boot with JPA-based data access and PostgreSQL schema design — owning both layers of the stack.
- —Agile Facilitation: Facilitate sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives — establishing predictable delivery cadence and reducing inter-team blockers across frontend, backend, and QA.
- —Code Quality & Mentorship: Established code review standards across both Angular and Spring Boot codebases, mentoring 2 junior developers through pair programming and structured PR feedback to improve overall code quality.
- —Design Collaboration: Translate business requirements into Figma wireframes and high-fidelity prototypes, bridging design intent with technical implementation.
- —Enterprise System Rollout: Drove end-to-end implementation of an enterprise sales management system, managing low-code configuration, UAT, and post-deployment customisations to digitise manual sales workflows across 4 branches and 20+ sales personnel.
- —Custom BI Dashboard: Engineered an internal business intelligence dashboard using Angular in collaboration with the Business Development team, delivering real-time insights across sales, marketing, and finance — replacing manual Excel reporting and serving 3 internal departments.
- —Infrastructure Operations: Deployed, monitored, and maintained enterprise applications on on-premises infrastructure as part of a lean 2-person IT team, ensuring high system availability, security compliance, and performance across production environments.
- —Scalable Architecture: Engineered scalable Angular/TypeScript applications using component-based architecture and lazy loading optimisation, improving initial page load performance.
- —Shared Component Library: Architected and maintained a shared component library of reusable UI components and global utility classes using Angular and Angular Material, reducing front-end development time for new features and ensuring visual consistency.
- —Standardised Boilerplate: Designed and implemented standardised project architecture and boilerplate templates, cutting developer onboarding time and establishing scalable foundations adopted across 3 projects.
- —Code Reviews & Migrations: Conducted rigorous PR reviews enforcing coding standards, and led Angular version migrations and third-party library upgrades while minimising breaking changes.
- —Responsive Web App: Developed a responsive internal staff appraisal application using Angular, translating Adobe XD designs into maintainable code deployed across TM branches nationwide — serving 80+ staff across Malaysia.
- —Reusable Components: Built reusable UI components and global utility classes within a 10+ member cross-functional team, ensuring visual consistency and accelerating development velocity.
- —API Integration & Collaboration: Integrated RESTful APIs developed by the Node.js backend team and collaborated closely with UI/UX designers within an Agile environment, ensuring seamless handoff between design, front-end, and backend layers.
- —Inspected all fabrication work to ensure compliance with Code requirements, including material verification and other quality control measures.
- —Conducted required inspections and prepared reports such as Manufacture Data Reports (MDR) for company and client references.
- —Carried out research according to protocols laid out by primary researchers.
- —Designed and virtually fabricated electronic devices (MOSFETs) using simulation tools, analyzing device performance in terms of reliability and endurance.
- —Collected experimental data and conducted statistical analyses of data sets, including graphs and spreadsheets.
- —Created presentation slides and posters for future researchers.
- —Conducted research and development of optical materials during the internship project.
- —Fabricated optical materials and studied product reliability, including structural, physical, and conductivity properties.
Projects
Lestar
AI-driven SaaS platform for strategic decision-making — predictive analytics and real-time insight delivered through an AI-assisted interface.
MoneyX
AI-driven personal finance platform helping users build financial literacy and streamline day-to-day money management.
TornadoByte Web Page
Shared web page for a small group of friends shipping side projects around shared hobbies.
KiraLoan
Loan calculator that turns amortisation tables and principal/interest breakdowns into readable charts.
Writing
Education
Master of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor Bahru, Malaysia
Bachelor of Science (Honours), Physics
Universiti Teknologi MARA, Pahang, Malaysia
Contact
Open to conversations about full-stack roles, technical leadership, or just talking through a tricky release pipeline. The résumé has the details — the links below have everything else.