Rizki Citra,Passionate Software Engineer, Crafting DelightfulUser Interfaces UIs.

I'd been drawn to crypto, web3 and trading since late 2023, picking the brain of a friend who had worked in the space for years. In February 2024 I left Skyshi Digital Indonesia to look for something new.

The very next day, that same friend introduced me to Bitwyre, a crypto, web3 and trading company. I applied on the spot, interviewed with their CTO and CEO, and joined the Engineering team as a Software Engineer (Frontend). A personal interest had quietly become my profession.

Bitwyre was a different world, with teammates from Canada, the US, India, Europe and beyond. English is my third language, but it never got in the way of building together across time zones.

That August we flew to Coinfest Asia in Bali, a week that mixed the conference with a small internal hackathon at a villa. Equal parts new connections, fresh ideas, and proof I could keep up with crypto's pace.

By late 2024 I also graduated, closing a three-year university chapter. Not the biggest or most prestigious school, but it gave me a foundation to build on and the confidence to keep going.

I kept building as a Frontend Developer at Skyshi. The standout was moladinfinance.com for Moladin, shipped in about five weeks, followed by a run of NDA-bound client projects.

On the side, I rebuilt my custom PC part by part. After a year on just a laptop, getting back to a proper setup with a bigger screen and better ergonomics felt like a real luxury.

I juggled the full-time job, university, and a little Facebook freelancing with a friend, wrapping those projects in three months without dropping anything. Looking back, I'm surprised how much fit into one year.

In late December 2021 I was taken on as an intern at Skyshi Digital Indonesia, a studio in Gamping, Yogyakarta. We worked fully remote, a pandemic habit the company decided to keep.

The first weeks were daunting with no professional experience behind me, but I found my rhythm fast, contributing to gethired.id, an internal platform for practicing job-ready skills.

Three months in, they hired me full-time as a Frontend Developer and moved me onto external, often NDA-bound projects. Going from intern to full-timer was my first real career milestone, earned while keeping up with university.

This was the year I got serious about software. Still under pandemic restrictions, I drilled the fundamentals of HTML, CSS and JavaScript through self-study and whatever I could find online.

By May the gap was clear: knowledge without formal experience made it hard to get hired. So I leaned into structure, and by late 2021 I was accepted into an Associate Degree in Informatics Management.

Between classes I kept shipping small projects to stay sharp. A year of discipline that laid the groundwork for everything after.

A year into the pandemic, home had become the classroom. I was in my final year of high school, restless and itching to do something with my time.

So I started taking small freelance gigs around my village for a bit of money. By the middle of 2020 I'd saved enough to begin buying PC parts, one piece at a time, whenever I could afford the next.

Looking back, these were the gold years. Even as the pandemic crept in, it was one of the most formative stretches I've had. I was studying Rekayasa Perangkat Lunak at SMKN 8 Pandeglang, and that's where building software first clicked.

The catch was that the curriculum ran years behind what the industry actually used, so I taught myself the rest from YouTube and free resources online, building the self-study habit that has carried me ever since.