I’m Widnyana, a tech-agnostic guy with over 11 years of professional experience in the field of System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, and Software Engineering.

I’m open to mentoring, partnering on side projects, brainstorming, beta testing new products, and writing. I’m also open for pro-bono activity, contact me if you need one.

Work Experiences

Stealth Startup

Sr. DevOps Engineer — June 2024 ‑ January 2025

  • Built and maintained IaC on GCP while managing Kubernetes clusters and VMs, ensuring scalability and reliability.
  • Led OpenTelemetry adoption for observability, optimized data pipelines with the Data Team, and Optimize cloud infrastructure costs.

Koinworks

Engineering Manager at Infrastructure.DevOps team — Apr 2023 - Mar 2024

  • Led cloud infrastructure cost optimization (33.33% savings) while transforming DevOps culture—enabling engineers to own deployments, CI/CD pipelines, and workflow automation.
  • Established a strong documentation and knowledge-sharing culture, improving onboarding, decision-making (ADR, RFC), and team efficiency through mentorship and system reliability practices.

Engineering Manager at Platform.Trust team — Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

  • Re-architected cloud infrastructure, shifting from VM-based to container-based deployments on GKE, and led the migration from a monolith to event-driven microservices, adopting GitLab CI and RabbitMQ.
  • Built a high-performing, autonomous engineering team, streamlined Scrum ceremonies (reducing meeting time by 50%), and drove observability adoption using Datadog.

Sotfware Engineer — Jan 2020 - Oct 2021

  • Built and optimized data pipelines, backend services, and private integrations while independently managing Kubernetes clusters and GCP services.
  • Introduced CI/CD with GitLab CI and ensured security compliance through rigorous report validation.

PT. Forta Digital Indonesia

Linux System Administrator — Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

  • Set up and maintained the office network, local development ecosystem, and key infrastructure components like Tenable.SC, Splunk, MongoDB, and RabbitMQ.
  • Implemented Continuous Deployment with Ansible and GitLab CI, while managing product deployments to client environments.

PT Mahapatih Sibernusa Teknologi

Full Stack Engineer — Mar 2019 - Aug 2019

  • Developed backend API for Sistem Manajemen Kerentanan (Sepatih) and implemented a missing Python SDK for the Tenable.SC API.
  • Automated deployment processes using Ansible and GitLab CI.

Binokular Media Utama

Senior Software Engineer — Nov 2015 - Jan 2018

  • Built and optimized AI-driven media monitoring systems, including entity extraction, sentiment analysis, and topic classification.
  • Designed and maintained high-availability database and search clusters, ensuring reliability and scalability.

PT Sebangsa Bersama

Backend Engineer ~ Apr 2014 - Oct 2015

  • Developed Sebangsa Auth with OAuth 1.0 and maintained Sebangsa Premium API.
  • Implemented a fan-out algorithm for efficient post distribution to followers.

Detailed view of my experience and skills can be found on this CV.

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