SMC is a fast-growing startup that aims to democratize AI for everyone sustainably and affordably with its proprietary advanced technology. We partner with NVIDIA and ST Telemedia Global Data Centres group to build large-scale, cost-effective, and low-carbon GPU AI infrastructure in four countries and rapidly extend our presence worldwide.Theo is accountable for growing and leading a cross-functional team that designs, builds, operates, and scales critical systems and infrastructure including Cloud, DevOps and Observability for NVIDIA H100 and L40S GPU clusters networked at hyperscale with RDMA InfiniBand.

Bangkit is a career readiness program acknowledged by the Indonesian President and fully supported by Google, GoTo, and Traveloka. We have successfully trained thousands of students from across Indonesia to be the high-caliber technical talents for world-class Indonesian technology companies and startups.Theo teaches soft skills and leadership courses, including:• Growth Mindset and The Power of Feedback• Time and Energy Management• Stress Management, Adaptability, and Resilience• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving• Project Management• Professional Branding and Networking• Effective Communication

Xendit is a Y Combinator-backed fintech unicorn that provides payment infrastructure across Southeast Asia. Companies like Starbucks, Traveloka, Lazada, Allianz, and Wise trust Xendit to simplify and secure their payments, disburse funds, provide lending, and detect fraud.Achievements:• Grew teams of managers, architects, and engineers globally. Accountable for hiring, compensation, promotion, retention, and culture• Part of the leadership team under the CTO office to define and refine the company policies, engineering strategy, project prioritization, operational metrics, customers SLA, employee performance appraisal, team structure and champion innovation with new tech such as Generative AI• Drive long-term, high-value projects to grow revenue, optimize cost, and comply with regulators• Accountable for multi-million dollar annual budget of people, hardware, software licenses, and cloud subscriptions, managed to optimize cost to hit revenue to OPEX ratio target• Built the foundation of system reliability, scalability, and automation across teams: implemented system and application monitoring, performance testing, automated incident response, blameless postmortems, safe deployment with blue-green and canary, centralized logging, modernized cloud infrastructure to Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and Policy as Code• Established Secure SDLC practice: mandated threat modeling and security design review, assigned security champion on every product team, trained developers on secure coding best practices, automated vulnerability management with automation such as SAST, dependency, and container security scanner, launched bug bounty program• Obtained international and local regulatory compliance requirements such as PCI DSS, ISO 27001, and Payment Gateway Operator• Rolled out Windows and MacOS corporate laptop programs (end-user computing) equipped with security tools such as MDM, EDR, and DLP

Avanade is a joint venture between Microsoft and Accenture that offers digital, cloud, AI, and industry solutions consultancy. Serving clients in 28 countries, including 46% of Fortune 500 companies.Key Projects / Involvements:• Account Manager / Solutions Architect to support the business divisions within the client’s organization, be part of the client’s IT division to strategize and drive the digital transformation agenda, particularly in digital workplace, digital payment processing and APIs.• Project Lead for 12 consultants to revamp the public website and one-stop E-Services with 1 million+ monthly visitors using responsive web design and SharePoint 2013.• Cloud Solution Architect to consolidate and revamp internet portal using Sitecore 8 and migrate the server infrastructure to Microsoft Azure.• Cloud Solution Architect to virtualize and migrate on-premise servers to Microsoft Azure and manage the integration with existing on-premise environment.

Key Projects / Involvements:• Country Release Manager to orchestrate and drive the standardization and migration of 3,000 desktops computers and VDI clients to Windows 7 and Office 2010 in Singapore. It is part of 55,000 seats roll-out across Asia Pacific.• Global Deployment Consultant to oversee and guide the local (country level) deployment teams to plan and execute the desktop transformation and application portfolio streamlining for 40,000 computers worldwide.

Achievements:• Attain 150% of target revenue in 2009 – 2010.• Contribute to overachieve servers revenue growth in 2009 – 2010.• Help the team to achieve customer and partner net satisfaction target in 2008 – 2009.

Key Projects / Involvements:• Develop WPF-based software designed to assist project cost estimating, mainly for civil engineering projects.• Develop web and desktop instant messaging application - integrated with in-house unified communication system and Microsoft Office Communication Server 2007.• Develop SharePoint web parts for online leave system on Mitrais intranet.