Hi, I’m Rama — now part of the HR Operations and Engagement team here at Bukit Vista. Today’s edition is about spotlighting transformation. And if you’ve ever wondered what growth looks like when it’s nurtured with intention, this is one of those stories.
Let me introduce you to Reza — our Fullstack Developer, who went from intern to a critical thinker and visual storyteller in the span of just a few months. His journey is not just about technical mastery. It’s about what happens when talent meets opportunity, and support meets initiative.
“I didn’t stay in my lane — and it paid off.”
That’s the Reza energy.
When he first joined Bukit Vista as a Frontend Intern, Reza was in his last year at Brawijaya, seeking a space to grow beyond the classroom. But instead of settling into just what he knew, he challenged himself to go beyond.
“I wanted to contribute beyond just frontend,” Reza told me. “So I started exploring backend systems and eventually data visualization too.”
Fast forward: he’s now a Fullstack Developer, spearheading a project to analyze and visualize guest reviews across Bali and Lombok — insights that help our partners improve their property performance, and our teams make sharper, smarter decisions.
A Culture That Builds Confidence, Not Just Code
Reza recently underwent a training process under the guidance of our senior leaders team — an experience that truly reflects the culture we live by at Bukit Vista. Here, growth is fueled by curiosity, collaboration, and our core value to Rise to the Challenge. Throughout this journey, Reza was never treated as just a developer. He was treated as a contributor. One whose insights could shape strategy — if he was willing to lean in. And he did.
With the consistent encouragement of Kak Ghani, Vice President of Marketing, Reza learned how to align his visualizations with company goals. He discovered how to craft data stories that actually mattered to our teams — stories that influence decisions, not just dashboards that look good.
Alongside him was Kak Vidi, Vice President of Engineer, as his technical north star. Whether it was structuring data or optimizing load times, Vidi’s mentorship helped Reza take each stumbling block and turn it into a new level of clarity. It wasn’t about spoon-feeding. It was about holding space for experimentation and stepping in with just the right guidance when needed.
As Reza put it:
“Thank you to the entire UM Leadership team for giving me the opportunity to learn and grow. Their support has played a significant role in my development at Bukit Vista.”
This kind of leadership doesn’t just teach hard skills — it unlocks a deeper kind of confidence. And to me, that’s the most underrated growth metric we have. At Bukit Vista, we actually track this kind of growth through something called the Leadership Planning Table (LPT) — a framework designed to map out each team member’s evolving impact, potential, and trajectory. It’s not just about what you can do today, but who you’re becoming tomorrow.
Reza working on one of his data visualization projects
Debugging the Unknown: Reza’s Real Journey Through Tech Trials
Let’s be honest: data visualization isn’t as glamorous as it sounds on a resume.
Reza didn’t just sit at his laptop and have the graphs render themselves into perfection. The frameworks he used were completely new to him. The libraries? Limited. And sometimes, the ideas he dreamed up for a feature or output simply weren’t possible within the current stack.
Take, for example, one of his standout projects — embedding the Nusantara Atlas Map on our website. The map allows users to explore how Bali has transformed over the years, from its landscape in 1965 to today. It’s immersive and beautifully executed, but behind that final output was a fair share of debugging, interface limitations, and platform restrictions.
Our most recent feature on our website, Atlas Nusantara Map.
There were moments when the map wouldn’t render as expected, or the features couldn’t be toggled due to constraints in the platform itself. And while it may have been tempting to hit pause, Reza did what great engineers do — he kept looking for workarounds, documented what couldn’t be fixed yet, and made sure the team was aware of every limitation and future possibility.
“The biggest challenge was adapting quickly,” he shared. “You don’t just learn — you have to apply what you’ve learned and make an actual impact.”
That’s where the growth happened — not in the flawless execution, but in the persistent iterations. The not-so-glamorous moments when things break and you don’t give up. When you dig deeper. When you rewrite, re-render, and rethink.
What you don’t see behind the map is hours of trial, tinkering, and teamwork. That’s what we mean when we say hard work pays off — not in shiny titles, but in the quiet mastery that grows with every challenge overcome.
Reza’s Story, and the Possibility of Yours
Stories like Reza’s remind me that growth doesn’t always announce itself with grand gestures. Sometimes, it begins quietly—with curiosity, a willingness to explore, and the courage to navigate unfamiliar ground. His journey is filled with questions, experiments, late-night debugging, and small wins that gradually shape something much bigger.
And maybe that’s the real magic of being at Bukit Vista. We don’t expect you to arrive fully formed. What matters more is the openness to learn, the energy to contribute, and the joy of collaborating with people who genuinely want to see each other succeed.
If you’ve ever wondered where your next leap might happen, maybe Reza’s journey offers a glimpse. Sometimes, the stories we read reflect a version of ourselves we haven’t met yet. If that sparks something in you, feel free to explore more — or even take a small first step — on our careers page.