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About

Software Engineer, Indonesia

Nine years building and shipping production systems in Go, Python and TypeScript. Five years as Technical Leader at Kabayan Consulting, leading engineering teams, winning contracts with technical proposals and cutting internal system costs by 75%. Now a DevOps Engineer at Cartenz Technology, running Kubernetes, GitOps and monitoring for production.

Experience

  1. DevOps Engineer

    Cartenz Technology, – Present

    • Automated 90% of maintenance reporting (server utilization, service uptime, incident handling) and integrated WhatsApp and Telegram with the ticketing system to speed up incident response.
    • Designed end-to-end monitoring and alerting for a 14-server production environment (Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, HAProxy) using VictoriaMetrics, Grafana and Alertmanager, including server-to-server connectivity checks.
    • Maintained CI/CD and GitOps delivery with GitLab CI, Jenkins, Harbor and Argo CD on Kubernetes (RKE2).
  2. Technical Leader

    Kabayan Consulting, –

    • Directed, managed and mentored software engineering teams.
    • Wrote technical proposals and presented Proofs of Concept in client pitches, securing multiple contracts including an IDR 4.5 billion project from a single client.
    • Architected, deployed and maintained internal corporate systems (task management, finance, document repositories, dedicated email and office network), cutting internal operating cost by 75% (IDR 20M → 5M per month).
  3. Senior Software Engineer

    Kabayan Consulting, –

    • Built and maintained client applications in their preferred stacks, including PHP, Go, Python, Swift and JavaScript/TypeScript.
    • Engineered a cost-effective omnichannel contact center for a key client, reducing their annual operating budget by over 58% (about IDR 350 million saved per year).
    • Moved deployments from manual steps to CI/CD pipelines, reducing deployment time by about 20–30%.
  4. Software Engineer

    Kabayan Consulting, –

    • Developed, maintained and optimized full-stack applications with Laravel, Django/Flask and Go on MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB.
    • Deployed, maintained and troubleshot production environments, both on-premise and in the cloud.
    • Contributed to system architecture and technical documentation.

Education

  • Bachelor of Computer Science

    Universitas Bina Sarana Informatika

    GPA 3.54 / 4.00

  • Diploma in Informatics Management

    Akademi Bina Sarana Informatika

    GPA 3.63 / 4.00

Skills

Languages

  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • Python
  • Go
  • PHP

Frameworks

  • React
  • Vue.js
  • Next.js
  • Node.js
  • Django
  • Echo
  • Gin
  • Laravel
  • CodeIgniter

Developer Tools

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Argo CD
  • Jenkins
  • GitLab CI
  • Harbor
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • SQLite
  • Supabase

Miscellaneous

  • Git
  • Figma
  • Nginx
  • HAProxy
  • Linux
  • VPS
  • Networking