Experiences

VP of Product and Engineering, MyRobin.ID

April 2023 - Present

As VP of Product and Engineering at MyRobin (a BetterPlace Company), I lead strategic product development and engineering initiatives. Key Achievements and Responsibilities:

  • Product Strategy and Development:
    • Executed product strategy, resulting in improved Product and Engineering efficiency, budget, and timeline.
    • Oversaw product development, ensuring timely, quality delivery in line with business objectives.
    • Reduced time-to-release to 20% by implementing automated-test
    • Reduced reported errors to 50% by implementing automated-test
    • Increased DAU for Attendance features by 75% by simplify UX
  • Engineering Leadership:
    • Successfully implemented scalable, reliable solutions, contributing to improved end-to-end internal and external user applications performance
    • Designed and created CI/CD using Jenkins
    • Automated-test Infratstructure for frontend and backend using Cypress
    • Implemented everyday releases
    • Reduced 27% infrastructure cost by reviewing unused and less-optimal codes
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Business Development, Pre-sales, Finance, Operations):
    • Collaborated with marketing, sales, and customer support for cohesive product development and go- to-market strategies.
    • Aligned product and engineering efforts with overall business objectives.
    • Involved in pre-sales activities by pitching to potential clients by doing demonstrations, PoC, and training
    • Involved in integration activities
    • Created simplified flow for Finance team to disburse salary
  • Team Management:
    • Recruited, developed, and mentored high-performing teams.
    • Implemented regular “Office Hour” (an 1-on-1 private discussions)
    • Implemented regular “Tech Friday” (an Open Tech Discussions) Budget and Resource Management:
    • Effectively managed product and engineering budget, optimizing resource allocation.
    • Made data-driven decisions to prioritize projects based on business impact and goals.

Senior Engineering Manager, TabSquare.AI (Delivery Hero Company)

January 2022 - April 2023

I led two teams from different countries and managed one of the Tabsquare products that has more than 50+ brands using it daily. It is B2B2C and one the most important and crucial product, because this product is directly used by customers of Tabsquare’s clients. Provided clear and concise direction to engineering team on their deliverable, supervising their work, and driving product releases / project completion as per the timelines decided. Led technical solution designs with the entire team; be a sounding board & guide the team for any tech- related issue.

Worked closely with the product managers and designers to refine stories, discuss, and finalize release timelines, and attend relevant meetings with stakeholders. Provided guidance to ensure the overall architecture and solutions are very well designed for the long- term while also driving a pragmatic approach to deliver results in phases that is aligned with business value.

Ensured optimal application of engineering resources to meet product development and consumer requirements and ensures the implementation of agile processes. Designed the entire solution from ideation and visual design through the SDLC, life cycle activities such as extending or updating a system, planning retirement of a system.

I did getting hands-on with code rollouts as and when required to ensure releases go out in a timely and accurate fashion.

I did hiring, onboarding and building a team of capable engineers across India, both in-house and through outsourced agencies.

Senior Engineering Manager, Sinbad (PT Sinbad Karya Perdagangan)

April 2021 - January 2022

I built and improved the technology road map for the company with key focus on quality, reliability, compliance, budgetary adherence, engineering culture, development flow, and operational excellence. Sinbad’s mission is to maximise efficiency in the supply chain industry through technology.

We’ve developed a platform that retailers/outlets/merchants can use to place orders directly to principal manufacturers and product distributors.

VP of Information Technology, Biznet Networks (PT Supra Primatama Nusantara)

January 2020 - February 2021

As VP of Information Technology, I was responsible for all aspects of IT of Biznet Network. - a leader of an integrated digital infrastructure company in Indonesia. I led more than 80 people in IT and 6 departments including SAP, Infrastructure, IT Helpdesk, Marketing Digital, and two software development teams.

I provided hands-on leadership for a full-range of services which included enterprise technology infrastructure, network engineering, applications development and innovation. Reporting to the CEO.

I developed and planned the technology road map for the company with key focus on safety, security, technology reliability, compliance, budgetary adherence, engineering culture, development flow, and operational excellence. Maintained people happiness and upgrade their skill and knowledge.

Achievement

  1. Built 5 new structure roles from scratch to help achieve another VPs goals that related to technology
    • IT Infrastructures & Operations Helpdesk
    • IT SAP
    • IT Digital Marketing
    • IT Project & Network
    • IT Finance & HR
  2. Transformed development workflows using agile methodologies
  3. Implemented automated deployment.
  4. Modernized old telephony system used by Contact Center using Open Source project and off-the-shelf solution.
  5. Reduced similar issues and request from internal to IT and measured all activity metrics that align with management goals.
  6. Redesigned and modernized all internal system and server infrastructures
  7. Enhanced BiznetHome sales and registration portal with tracking and online chat (using Zoho). Previously the website didn’t have any trackings.
  8. Integrated silo apps into one and unified system using api orchestration and SSO
  9. Launched web version of Biznet Customer application (my.biznet.id)
  10. Launch digital version of Biznet Inspire Magazine using WordPress and custom plug-in.
  11. Integrated new Biznet’s subsidiary (PrimaMedix, a face-mask producers) into existing Biznet SAP system and reports.

VP of Technology and Innovation, Qlue Smart City

Aug 2018 - January 2020

As VP of Technology and Innovation, I was responsible for all aspects of technology for Qlue - a leader of Smart City solutions. The team I assembled, develop several products using cutting-edge technology, recently we implement Deep Learning to our products.

I provided hands-on leadership for a full-range of services which included enterprise technology infrastructure, network engineering, applications development and innovation. Reporting to the CTO and CEO and as a member of the management team.

I developed the technology road map for the company with key focus on safety, security, technology reliability, compliance, budgetary adherence, engineering culture, development and operational excellence.

Maintain developers happiness and upgrade their skill and knowledge.

Knowledge: Enterprise-grade Architecture, DevOps, Security, System Performance, AWS/Google Cloud Platform, Machine Learning, Team Management, Pre-sales, Partnership, basic sales and marketing (sometimes I helped other department in customer-facing)

Projects: Computer vision, IoT, GIS, Location tracking, AI, Machine Learning, Hardware

Head of Engineering, Tech in Asia

Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

Tech in Asia (YC W15) is a media, events, and jobs platform on a mission to build and serve Asia’s tech communities.

I am responsible for innovating new technologies at Tech in Asia Indonesia and make sure all Tech in Asia Indonesia technologies and infrastructures are in good shape to deliver latest news about startup industry and building solid engineering team.

We’re always trying to keep up our platform with the latest technology, to ensure performance and stability of the platform.

  • Transforming engineering team into more agile than before using Scrum Framework.
  • Develop and groom team member to be a new leaders
  • Improving back-end infrastructure
  • Designing and Implementing seamless Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
  • Launching internal analytic tools
  • Launching Tech in Asia Indonesia new website redesign
  • Converting Tech in Asia Indonesia into PWA-enabled web app
  • Build Machine Learning
  • Build Internal Analytic and Tracking Tools

Knowledge5 Progressive Web App, Website Performance, DevOps, Security, VM, Team Management, Software Development, Basic Online Media Business.

Specialist - Touchpoint and Fulfillment Development, XL Axiata

Jul 2016 - Dec 2016

As a Technical leader, I teamed with several team members to develop and manage services (SOA) using TIBCO Designer.

Skill sets: Java, TIBCO, XML, JSON, Oracle PL/SQL

Specialist - Business Analyst, XL Axiata

Sep 2010 - Jul 2016

Compile and analyze cost and profitability reports from various data sources. Mostly using Oracle, SAP, or plain Excel spreadsheet.

Skill sets: Oracle PL/SQL, Shell Script, MySQL, Python

IT Development and System Administration, Bakrie Telecom (ESIA)

Jun 2008 - Sep 2010

As a software engineer I developed and maintained various IT projects and products.

ESIA was a budget-telco operator so back then we had to develop some features and products from scratch to save some budget for example I helped marketing and product team to develop “ESIA SMS Rp 1 per karakter” or “IDR 1/char for SMS” using basic PHP and SQL Syntax.

IT Development (Contract basis), PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia

Jun 2006 - Jun 2008

As a contract software developer I developed and maintained existing applications, mostly internal Telkom applications and software.

Education

Telkom University

2002 - 2008

Bachelor’s degree, Informatics Engineering