A Decision That Affected Our Engineering Workflow.

I want to tell a story about a decision I made that affected our engineering workflow. It started back when I was working at Budi Luhur University. When I first joined the developer team, I was assigned to create a new iOS application using Swift and SwiftUI—an app designed to help students with academic life, like checking grade history, marking attendance via QR codes, viewing schedules, and more. Fun fact: before applying for the job, I had no idea I'd be building an iOS app because the interview focused entirely on Android development. It was a tough transition for me since I had to teach myself iOS development, get used to iOS, and learn how to navigate macOS :v. Long story short, I was able to deliver the product to the App Store in about 3 to 6 months. That was a great milestone, but about 1–2 months after I started, the senior mobile developer resigned, leaving me as the only mobile developer at the university. Because of our limited mobile headcount, I proposed rebuilding the application using Flutter. I had to learn yet another framework, but Alhamdulillah, the results were worth it. A friend joined the team to help with the rewrite, and our time spent fixing cross-platform bugs (iOS and Android) dropped significantly since we only had to maintain a single codebase.