Two decades building digital platforms and the orchestrated complexity in between.
23 years shippingRetailFinancial TechnologyBanking
01 — About
Bali → Worldwide
A technologist with a builder's heart.
Hello — I'm a technologist from Bali, Indonesia. I've spent the last two-plus decades building digital platforms across marketplaces, retail, logistics, fintech, and now banking — the kind of systems that need to keep running while the business reinvents itself around them.
My work sits at the intersection of strategy, architecture, and people. I've led multi-year roadmaps, migrated legacy stacks in months, bridging the gap between startup agility and enterprise stability.
I am a lifelong technologist at heart who finds genuine joy in the craft and the conundrum of complexity in it.
Overseeing 700+ people in 9 cities, across planning, architecture, operations, and change management. Responsible for the bank's full technology landscape — from the roadmap to keeping the lights on, and everything in between.
Tier-III Data CentresDevSecOpsDistributted Workplaces24/7 Command Centre
New certified Tier III data centres — meaningful upgrade in resilience and capacity.
60% microservices adoption across core banking and digital channels, boosting scalability and flexibility.
5× delivery velocity with 60% defect reduction — quality and speed, not a trade-off.
39× performance boost on the digital lending platform — and a real bump in business volume.
Completed M & A systems and data integration in 4 months with minimal disruption.
2020 — 2022
Technology Architecture & Digital Development Head
Enterprise Architecture · Digital Platforms · Infrastructure Modernization
Drove enterprise architecture, technology standardisation, and digital readiness across the bank — building the internal capabilities and platform foundations that made the bigger transformation possible.
Digital Ventures · Healthtech · Proptech · Edutech
Stood up an innovation unit inside the bank — startup pace, corporate backing. We shipped ecosystem platforms across health, property, and education to bring the bank into parts of people's lives where banking apps don't usually reach.
Digital VentureEcosystem IntegrationDigital Platform
Built and shaped a startup-inspired team and way of working that didn't exist in the bank before.
Shipped digital platforms across Health-Tech, Prop-Tech, and Edu-Tech as the bank's ecosystem strategy.
Built a distribution network that brought the bank into customer touchpoints well beyond traditional channels.
Integrated new platforms into the bank's core products and services as strategic enablers, not side projects.
MatahariMallE-commerce
2015 — 2018 · 3 yrs
2015 — 2018
Chief Technology Officer
Indonesia's first O2O retail platform · Lippo Group
Built Indonesia's first online-to-offline retail platform from a blank page. MVP in three months, national launch, 0 → 25k concurrent users in the first few days — and somehow hit two years of business targets in year one.
e-CommerceWarehouseSupply chainTop IT Award '16
Scaled engineering from 5 to 100 — fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance.
Delivered the MVP in 3 months, followed by a national big-bang launch that hit 25k concurrent users within days.
Built warehousing, last-mile, and supply-chain integrations across Lippo's retail ecosystem.
Recognised: Top IT Implementation & Top IT Leadership @ IT & Telco Awards 2016.
Fogitive Media KreasiAgency
2013 — 2015 · 2 yrs
2013 — 2015
Partner & Consultant
Travel · Healthcare
Took a swing at building things for myself — digital ventures across travel and healthcare, alongside consulting work for telco and hospitality clients. Most of the startups didn't make it. The lessons absolutely did.
Entrepreneurship
Built multiple venture solving sector-specific problems in travel and healthcare.
Hands-on experience in product, ops, and adapting to wildly different markets.
Delivered tailored solutions for international clients across telco and hospitality.
OLX / TokobagusClassifieds
2008 — 2013 · 5 yrs
2008 — 2013
Head of Engineering
Indonesia's largest classifieds · Acquired by Naspers
Grew the engineering team from 2 to 50+, migrated the entire stack from Microsoft to open-source in three months without going dark, and built the API and search platform that took the company to market leadership.
Search at ScaleMobile ApplicationsMachine Learning Moderation
Scaled engineering 2 → 50+ engineers.
Full migration MS → open-source in 3 months — without stopping the train.
Built API + search platform to handle tens-of-thousands concurrent users.
Native apps across Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and J2ME.
ML-assisted ad validation for spam & fraud detection.
Awards: Best Performing Website · The Best User Interface @ Top E-commerce 2012.
Bali IT SolusiSoftware House
2006 — 2008 · 2 yrs
2006 — 2008
Partner & Lead Technologist
Software house · European clients
Co-founded a small software house and grew it from 2 to 12 engineers. Worked with European clients in digital media and e-commerce, and quietly became the first person many young engineers learned from.
Scaled the team 2 → 12, with a strong mentoring culture.
Tailored solutions for European clients in digital media and e-commerce.
Set up processes for repeatable, on-time delivery.
Soltria Europe BVSoftware House
2003 — 2006 · 3 yrs
2003 — 2006
Software Engineer
CMS · OnlineShop · Web 2.0
Where it all started. Building sites for clients across Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in the early Web 2.0 era — bespoke CMS, custom e-commerce, a lot of Flash, and an embarrassing amount of enthusiasm for CSS3.
Web 2.0CMSCSS3
Designed, built, and shipped a wide range of CMS and e-commerce projects.
Modern UX principles applied early — when most of the web hadn't caught up yet.
Combined dynamic animation and CSS3 craft into engaging, characterful interfaces.
03 — Principles
Hard-won, opinionated
How I build.
P / 01
Strategy is just architecture, drawn larger.
Three-year blueprints, quarterly bets, weekly trade-offs. Same skill, different zoom.
P / 02
Velocity and quality aren't a trade-off.
5× faster delivery and 60% fewer defects, in the same year. The lever is craft, not heroics.
P / 03
Teams scale on culture, not headcount.
2 → 50, 5 → 100, 400 → 700. The shape changes; the principles don't.
P / 04
Bet on platforms, not features.
The features get rewritten; the platforms outlive the org chart.
P / 05
Migrate while the train is running.
Stack swaps, M & A integrations, regulator deadlines — done in months, not years, without dropping a packet.
P / 06
Be a useful nerd.
Geeky enough to read the code, strategic enough to read the room.
04 — Spill the tea
Disclosed in full
Off the clock.
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Coffee-holic
Bali single-origin, mostly. Don't talk to me before the second cup.
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Failed musician
The riffs in my head never quite reach my fingers. The career path is recommended.
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YNWA
Die-hard Liverpudlian. Yes, even on the bad days. Especially on the bad days.
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Bookworm Biker
Nerdy reader, motorcycle rider — and yes, I've had my fair share of #crashes.
Let's collaborate.
Full-time geek, part-time party-pooper. Drop a line if you want to talk strategy, architecture, hiring, or just trade strong opinions over coffee.
