Closing 2025, Starting 2026: Pushing Limits and Showing Up

Even though we’re already settling into the second week of 2026, I wanted to take a deliberate breath, pause for a moment, and look back at where the last twelve months took me.

To be completely honest, 2025 wasn’t an easy year. It tested my limits, demanded constant adaptation, and pushed me far more than I ever anticipated. There were plenty of moments of self-doubt and exhausting debugging marathons, but looking back now, it was also the year where foundational learning truly happened.

Stepping Outside the Comfort Zone at CV Adisatya

I kicked off 2025 stepping into a role as a Mobile Developer intern at CV Adisatya, tasked with developing a real-world attendance tracking application. Up until that point, my primary comfort zone had been Android Native development with Kotlin. Being suddenly dropped into Flutter meant I was not in comfortable territory.

At first, there was a steep learning curve. Concepts that felt second nature in Kotlin required a completely different mental model in Flutter’s declarative widget tree. There was a ton of catching up to do, endless trial and error, and plenty of broken layouts late at night. But that discomfort was the most valuable part of the journey. Special shoutout to my mentor and senior colleagues at the office who guided me through the rough patches. It taught me that framework familiarity is temporary, but the ability to learn and adapt on the fly is permanent.

Crossing the Academic Finish Line

On November 29, 2025, I officially completed my university journey and graduated. The final project, born out of the attendance system I built during my internship, brought its own heavy set of headaches, last-minute revisions, and edge-case bugs.

Was the final project an immaculate piece of software? Far from it. But in the end, it was built, tested, defended, and completed. In software engineering, as in life, shipping something imperfect to completion matters infinitely more than dreaming of an idealized project that never gets finished.

IDCamp 2024 and Earning the DCA Certification

Parallel to work and final semester deadlines, I committed to the IDCamp 2024 program under the Android Developer learning path. The curriculum was rigorous and unforgiving, forcing me to deepen my understanding of clean architecture, Jetpack components, and asynchronous persistence well beyond basic YouTube tutorials.

Huge, heartfelt thanks to Mas Mufi for constantly checking in, pushing me forward, and refusing to let me slack off when fatigue set in. That persistence paid off: on December 11, 2025, I officially passed the Android Developer Certification (DCA) exam administered by DevCert in partnership with Dicoding. Earning that credential felt like a small, deeply meaningful victory: a quiet validation that the hours spent staring at stack traces were bearing fruit.

Stepping into 2026

Not a lot of glamorous headlines happened in 2025, but a tremendous amount of hard-earned learning did.

Heading into 2026, my primary compass remains locked on Mobile Development: refining my craft in Flutter, building production-ready mobile apps, and continuing to understand software from the ground up. Simultaneously, I am expanding my horizons into modern web technologies through ongoing training at Kitakerja, broadening my mental models and seeing how full-stack architectures connect end-to-end.

If your team happens to have an opening or knows of any opportunities for an enthusiastic Junior Mobile Developer who loves solving problems and isn't afraid to dig into complex codebases, I’d genuinely love to connect.

I don’t pretend to have every answer or know exactly where this career path will lead, but I know one thing for certain: I am showing up every single day, building real output, and moving forward.

Thanks for reading. Let’s connect.