I lead Data, Security, IT and Infrastructure teams and platforms at Pine Labs.

At Gojek I spend my time on designing systems and building teams that help millions of customers reach their destination on time and safely, get yummy food on time, transact using digital money and much more. Moving back to Engineering Platforms at Gojek after a 2 yr stint as GoPay's CTO, I lead teams that focus on distributed systems reliability, quality & automation, security, infrastructure, financial prudence and developer productivity for both backends and frontends. Along with this I also work on engineering operations, recruitment, mentoring and coaching engineering leaders and help on M&As from engineering perspective.

Worked on almost all Gojek products helping with architecture focusing on scalability SRE, people management, recruitment and in general office/site operations in India.Role progressions: Developer on a product to leading all backend teamsCompany growth during my time here : 16 to 1000+ people engineering and product organisation, 300M to >10Billion evaluation, < 1 Million MAU to >20 Million MAU, 300k orders a day to >10 Million orders a dayProminent Delivery Accomplishments: lead multiple product teams to scale products in serial order and then all together, redesigned multiple systems for scale, ease of adding features, managing internal engineering efforts on increasing resiliency, designing for failure, alerting, monitoring and traceability, mentoring leaders and building many people and delivery processesLearning and execution* Tech - building highly available systems that scale, designing resilient systems and app, replacing synchronous cause and effect systems to asynchronous eventually consistent systems, choices on data storage, caching* People - building many self organising teams, designing parts of the engineering org, recruitment practices, recruiting some great people, creating and executing a performance evaluation system, advocating and executing a fair compensation system for engineers, coaching non-engineering teams on multiple office wide initiatives, helping many engineers create and edit content for blogs and conferences.* Practices - extending extreme programming and continuous delivery practices to product teams, deployment review processes, iterative timeline reviews, org wide influence on people focused practices like 1-1 meetings, frequent and open team feedback sessions with the help of people function, quarterly planning engineering initiatives, org level OKR implementation

Role progression: engineering leader to CTOCompany growth during my time here : integrating 3 different emoney focused acquisitions, reaching > 10 Million MAU, 0 to multimillion open loop transactions, increasing emoney use cases, 80% of Indonesian e-money users use the app, fastest growing eWallet in SE Asia. Prominent Delivery achievements - restructured teams around long term objectives, highly available payment backend, APIs as a product with focus on integrations, designing and building multiple consumer facing products to increase convenience, ubiquity, and efficient subsidies, kick-starting the finserv division & merchant division Learning & Execution - * Tech - along with continuing on the path at Gojek, regulations and compliance, multi-DC deployments and storage, multi-country setup, 3rd party integrations, security and fraud detection, building platform teams that execute org-wide initiatives.* People - along with continuing on the path at Gojek, designing Gopay engineering org, leading teams and coaching leaders across organisation and geographical boundaries, recruitment and Growing the engineering team from ~30 to ~140 engineers, M&As

Role progression: Consultant to Lead consultantProminent Delivery Accomplishments: multiple successful deliveries as an engineer, engineering leader, lead small and big teams as a tech lead, project/delivery manager, coaching and teaching roles.Learnings and execution* Tech - over 10 years, worked on new technologies and platforms and databases, shallow to deep work on mulitple desktop apps, websites, ecommerce sites, enterprise apps, healthcare and e-governance, developer tooling. Learnt, practiced and taught domain driven design, microservices, restful services, infrastructure automation.* People - started as an individual contributor, worked with teams, taught at bootcamps, coached and lead teams, built great relationships, paired and worked with people from diverse cultures, pivoted from individual focus to team focus* Practices - possibly the best place to learn great engineering delivery practices in 2000s, learnt a lot about how to build and coach an agile self organising teams, essence of extreme programming practices, iterative delivery, end user focus, coaching teams inside and outside as a consultant, lots of learnings around distributed teams, continuous delivery and infra automation, delivery management in general..

Delivery Management on the awesome new test management tool from ThoughtWorks called Twist.

Role progression: developer to tech leadBrief intro on company: Outsourced Product DevelopmentProminent Delivery Accomplishments: design and develop a hospital management system, reverse engineering a binary proprietary reporting format, wrote an opinionated codegen for building a 3 tier architecture given a model schema, somewhat akin to Rails, but very primitive and in C#Learnings and execution: Tech - Built a couple of systems from scratch, automated build and functional testing, TDD, experimental workPeople and Processes - managing client relationships, project plans and iterative releases, coaching some bright and then not so bright people

Role progression: grad developer to senior developerBrief intro on company: ERP for SMBs in EU and USProminent Delivery Accomplishments: eCommerce website generatorLearnings and execution:Tech - These first 2 years were a great start for me, I got hooked on to coding, and was part of many initiatives that helped me get access to multiple languages and user interfaces, databases, design patterns, desktop and web development, went from new to programming to being one of the best in the team, later organisation.