Wawan Kurniawan

Leading the engineering team in building Horego, a cutting-edge food discovery platform. Responsible for defining technical direction, ensuring system scalability, and optimizing development processes. Key contributions:

• Sets the overall technical vision and strategy for the engineering organization.
• Builds, manages, and mentors engineering teams. Recruits and retains top engineering talent.
• Oversees the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects.
• Manages resources and prioritizes projects based on business needs.
• Ensures the technical architecture and infrastructure are scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Manages the engineering budget and resources effectively.

Built and scaled the engineering team from scratch. Defined team roles, technology stack, and recruitment processes. Key achievements:

• Spearheaded the development of multiple applications supporting on-demand printing services.
• Optimized infrastructure and DevOps workflows, reducing deployment time by 50%.
• Worked with business and product teams to determine development priorities, budget, and timelines.

Led the development of a Payment Gateway, integrating with multiple external partners. Notable experiences:

• Managed a team to develop a World Cup Streaming App in just two months, handling massive concurrent traffic.
• Gained expertise in server architecture, database optimization, background jobs, WebSockets, and streaming technologies.
• Played a key role in system scalability and high-performance computing.

Gained expertise in Ruby on Rails and led a team of 3-5 developers. Responsibilities included:

• Managing task assignments and ensuring timely delivery.
• Designing databases and system integrations.
• Introducing Scrum methodology for agile development.

Joined as a junior developer while in college, developing web applications using PHP (Xaraya Framework) and ExtJS.

• Developed and deployed applications for clients.
• Handled server deployment and system maintenance.