Senior Engineering Leader
"Guide the work, grow the people."
// Trailhead
14+ years shipping software and scaling engineering teams across Go-Jek, Smartfren, and multiple startups. From hands-on engineer to CTO, Director of Engineering, and Founder - built products, shaped teams, and delivered results at every level. Full-stack by craft, leader by instinct.
My name is Paiman. I'm living the dream in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. My mornings are fueled by building both strength and endurance. You'll find me lifting at the gym or running through the streets or parks. I dream of having Hulk's power and Flash's speed, but my true superpower lies in my passion for building software, shipping products, and turning ideas into reality. By day, I architect systems, lead teams, and chase innovation. I live for tech and the thrill of building something out of nothing. In the evenings, I dedicate my time to mastering Arabic and Spanish, unlocking new worlds one word at a time. With passion and determination, I am unstoppable. I am Paiman.
Years of Experience
Companies Worked At
Trails & Summits
Continents Reached
// The Route
From Yogyakarta to Singapore - a career built across cities, companies, and continents.
// Expedition Log
Over a decade of engineering ascents across startups, telcos, and fintech - from Go-Jek to leading my own expeditions.
Summit Achievement
Established team KPIs, standardized the Jira workflow, and built a healthy environment that made the team solid — while leading the migration from React Native to Expo.
Reflection & Cairn
My communication style shaped a culture where everyone takes full ownership, pushes back when something doesn't make sense, and speaks up with better ideas - no top-down, just open discussion.
The team was a glorious mix of Singaporean, Vietnamese, Myanmar, and Chinese accents, plus my thick Javanese one. Every meeting sounded like a United Nations session gone sideways, and somehow it worked perfectly.
Summit Achievement
Founded and built Sesambungan, a single-page platform letting entrepreneurs and small businesses create storefronts, take orders, and process payments.
Reflection & Cairn
I built my own company. Being able to build a product that people actually use - that's my definition of success.
I realized that being an entrepreneur is not easy, and it's not for everyone.
Summit Achievement
Co-founded Waqfuel and architected its platform as a Rust microservices system, leading all technology strategy and development.
Reflection & Cairn
Working with brilliant young people building systems that create real impact for the environment.
I made the deliberate decision to implement Rust in the systems I built - and genuinely fell in love with memory safety and zero-cost abstractions.
Summit Achievement
Built a cross-platform mobile application with Capacitor, delivering a single codebase deployable across multiple platforms.
Reflection & Cairn
Not every chapter of my career has been smooth. This one taught me that time management is a skill I still needed to sharpen.
First time working across 12+ hour timezone difference.
Summit Achievement
Led the engineering team across the full development lifecycle and partnered with the CEO to shape the company technology roadmap.
Reflection & Cairn
Working with a foreigner is always fun. I had regular 1-on-1 sessions with the CEO, exchanging insights and getting mentored by someone from the US who was genuinely inspiring. Leading a small team came with its own set of challenges, but that's what made it worthwhile.
Working in Bali was something else - slow living at its finest. After work, straight to the beach. Hahaha.
Summit Achievement
Led the development team to build a 3D-asset-based certification platform, defining its technical architecture and strategy end to end.
Reflection & Cairn
Most of my team were from Vietnam and the Philippines. Working in a startup is not always easy - there were a lot of challenges. But after I left, I still kept a good relationship with the CEO.
First time working for a US company - California timezone from Indonesia.
Summit Achievement
Led the engineering team and its leads on strategic planning, engaging the CEO and aligning technical solutions with product goals.
Reflection & Cairn
The leap from lead to manager is about letting go of code and trusting your team.
First time managing managers - overseeing engineering leads, not just engineers.
Summit Achievement
Built a healthy team environment and a strong engineering culture where people took ownership and did their best work.
Reflection & Cairn
Mentoring others is the fastest way to deepen your own understanding.
Led a team of 15+ engineers across multiple squads. Reported directly to the CEO.
Summit Achievement
Led the team to build an Applicant Tracking System from scratch using Node.js, Flutter, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes.
Reflection & Cairn
I led a team of Indian engineers - genuinely enjoyed working with them. I also taught them how to use Flutter, which turned out to be one of the most rewarding parts of the role.
First time leading a fully Indian engineering team - different rhythm, great energy.
Summit Achievement
Led a software team to develop Nupos, a Point of Sale application built with Flutter, Golang, MySQL, and Docker.
Reflection & Cairn
Being a leader is not easy. I learned a lot from my CEO - more than I expected.
Led a fully remote team during the pandemic - and learned that good leadership matters more than good tools.
Summit Achievement
Delivered IoT apps and web interfaces with React Native, ReactJS, Java, NodeJS, and MySQL, owning projects from inception to delivery.
Reflection & Cairn
Working for a foreign company remotely proved I can compete on the global stage.
First international job - worked for a Singapore company from Bogor.
Summit Achievement
Led the product team and steered development direction, building software with Golang, Scala, Java-Android, and MySQL.
Reflection & Cairn
Becoming CTO & Director at 27 taught me that leadership is earned through action, not age.
First CTO role - terrifying and exhilarating at the same time. A business won't survive without profit. Maybe my entrepreneurial instinct wasn't strong enough yet - but I'm grateful for that wake-up call. I needed that push to grow.
Summit Achievement
Built robust, user-friendly web platforms using Scala with the Lift framework, Semantic UI, JQuery, and MongoDB.
Reflection & Cairn
Short stints can still teach valuable lessons - every team has a different rhythm.
Deepened Scala expertise with the Lift framework after Go-Jek.
Summit Achievement
Crafted API services at Go-Jek using Scala (Play Framework), Slick, Elastic Search, and MariaDB while mentoring junior engineers.
Reflection & Cairn
Joining a hypergrowth startup showed me that speed and quality can coexist if the team is strong.
Joined Go-Jek during its rise - witnessed the birth of Indonesia's tech unicorn. First time using a MacBook - and I never looked back. Hahaha.
Summit Achievement
Built a back-office web platform with PHP (Laravel) and a responsive AngularJS UI, backed by secure MySQL data solutions.
Reflection & Cairn
Fintech taught me that every line of code handles someone's money - precision matters.
First time working in fintech - learned how payment systems actually work.
Summit Achievement
Developed desktop, web, and mobile applications using C# .NET, PHP, and Sencha Touch, backed by hands-on on-site client support.
Reflection & Cairn
Working at a Japanese company shaped me into a disciplined person - precision, punctuality, and respect for process became second nature.
I wasn't even officially graduated when I started at C2MFG, a Japanese company. Right after my thesis defense, I packed up and moved to Jakarta.
Summit Achievement
Developed robust, user-friendly websites with Java (Spring MVC, EJB, Hibernate/JPA) and PHP (CodeIgniter, Smarty) to deliver optimal web solutions.
Reflection & Cairn
Enterprise Java was tough but it built a solid foundation for everything that came after.
First real exposure to enterprise Java stack - Spring MVC, EJB, Hibernate. After I resigned, I shifted my full focus to finishing my thesis.
Summit Achievement
Identified and documented bugs with detailed reproducible reports, collaborating with developers to improve product reliability and performance.
Reflection & Cairn
QA taught me to think like a user - breaking things is the first step to building them right.
First job at a global gaming company - tested games for a living. I originally applied as a programmer but wasn't lucky enough at the time. So I applied as QA instead - and that was the beginning of my career, before I even graduated.
Summit Achievement
Taught programming fundamentals in Java and PHP, breaking down complex concepts and fostering hands-on learning for beginners.
Reflection & Cairn
Teaching others forces me to truly understand what I think I already know.
First professional experience ever - got paid to share knowledge.
// The Kit
A trail-tested kit of technologies across the full stack - from backend basecamps to frontend ridgelines and cloud altitude.
// Summit Kit
Training & Education
STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta · 2007 - 2012
Thesis: "Developing Jump and Run Side Scroller 2D Game 'Ninja Yusuke' Using GTGE"
Languages
Mountaineering
Favorite Books
Hobbies
Favorite Apps
// Rope Team
What colleagues, managers, and teammates say — straight from LinkedIn.
It's great to work with Paiman, and we had created a dynamic and efficient work environment under his leadership at PrimaKu. He demonstrates remarkable ownership, responsibility, and hard work. His proactive approach ensures project success. Paiman is invaluable to any team.
Shahanur Zaman
Android · Flutter · iOS Engineer
Reported to Paiman · PrimaKu · 2024
Paiman is very good backend engineer in Go-Jek Tech Valley, one of the senior that being hunt by Alamanda Shantika to join Go-Jek. As far as work with him, he always done his backend task very fast and always humble to share his knowledge to his junior. It's being absolute pleasure ever work with Paiman. Salute!
Ismail Wisnu
Digital Banking Product
Managed Paiman · Go-Jek · 2016
Paiman is smart guy, he fast learner also he is detail oriented and focus on work. :)
Arsyi R Fatah
CEO & Co-Founder, Refundway & Realvest
Senior at college · 2013
Paiman is a very diligent and ambitious person. He has strong technical knowledge in his field and very passionate in IT industry. He also has good leadership skill and teaching ability. I have personally learned a lot, gained a lot of knowledge from him. He will be an invaluable asset to any group or company that he joins. He is a super guy.
Agil Purusatama
C# .NET Software Engineer
Studied together · 2013
Paiman is a highly motivated person who has good ability at programming. He used to work as a Java Programmer at one of our college sub-company. He is a religious, sharp, tough, and smart person as I know. When you go for work with him, get ready to get more than enough result.
Afif Bimantara
Digital Product Designer (UI/UX)
Studied together · 2013
I know Paiman very well. He is a very ambitious, confident, diligent, honest, friendly and fun person. He is good at programming and leadership. I truly believe he will be a great person someday.
Yaniar Prayogo
IT Professional
Studied together · 2013
// Active Ascents
Products I currently build and maintain — running in production right now.
cacumen.paiman.dev
A multilingual aggregator for global hiking & trekking — mountains and trails worldwide, daily news, gear reviews, real-time mountain weather, and interactive maps. Everything categorized, tagged, and always backed by a live, clickable source URL.
postmortem.paiman.dev
Dissecting what went right and wrong — from startup failures and successes — so we can all learn and do better. AI agents do deep research from public sources, separate facts from claims, and link every claim to its source.
discernere.paiman.dev
Evidence-based information analysis platform. AI Agents (Claude Opus 4.8) run daily deep research on viral claims and narratives — separating facts from noise using a 6-tier verdict scale, per-claim analysis, and fully cited sources.
formlez.com
The parent company behind Sesambungan and Pakaryan — building tools for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and small businesses in Indonesia.
sesambungan.com
One-page storefront platform — create a shop, receive orders, and process payments without a developer. Built with Elixir Phoenix.
pakaryan.app
AI-powered web builder — describe what you want and it builds your web app. Like Lovable, but built from scratch.
// Elevation Log
Summit pushes and high-altitude trails on foot - from the volcanoes of Java to the roof of Borneo and the Himalayas.
root@paiman:~$
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// Signal
Whether you have an expedition, a role that needs a seasoned climber, or just want to connect - the signal's always open.
paiman.bandi@gmail.com
linkedin.com/in/paimanbandi
GitHub
github.com/paimanbandi
Phone
+62 813-1019-6988
"Guide the work, grow the people."
Currently based between Yogyakarta, Indonesia & Geylang, Singapore - hybrid, always on the move.
// achievement unlocked
🏔️ Summit reached, climber.