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
Career Positions
// The Climb
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ALTITUDE
// The Climb
From the 2011 basecamp to today's summit: 3726 meters of career trail.
2011 · 186 m
IMDKOM (LKP IMDKOM Yogyakarta)
Helped my students understand the Java and PHP programming languages, turning complex concepts into clear lessons that beginners could apply hands-on.
May 2011 - Aug 2011 · 371 m
Gameloft (PT Gameloft Indonesia)
Successfully reported critical bugs with clear, reproducible reports, helping developers fix them quickly and improving the reliability and performance of the game.
Aug 2011 - Apr 2012 · 555 m
Time Excelindo (PT Time Excelindo)
Successfully developed several robust, user-friendly websites with Java (Spring MVC, EJB, Hibernate/JPA) and PHP (CodeIgniter, Smarty), delivering optimal web solutions.
Sep 2012 - Dec 2014 · 739 m
C2MFG (PT C2MFG Indonesia)
Successfully developed many projects for manufacturing and pharmacy clients, delivering desktop, web, and mobile applications with C# .NET, PHP, and Sencha Touch, backed by hands-on on-site support.
Jan 2015 - Sep 2015 · 923 m
Cashlez (PT Cashlez Worldwide Indonesia)
Successfully developed an internal back-office web platform from scratch to production with PHP (Laravel), a responsive AngularJS UI, and secure MySQL data solutions.
Sep 2015 - Jan 2017 · 1107 m
Go-Jek Indonesia (PT Aplikasi Karya Anak Bangsa)
Successfully developed the backend for the GoBox project at Go-Jek with Scala (Play Framework), Slick, Elastic Search, and MariaDB, delivering reliable API services.
Jan 2017 - May 2017 · 1292 m
Atmatech
Successfully developed a website for sentiment analysis with Scala (Lift), Semantic UI, JQuery, and MongoDB, turning raw data into insights that are easy to explore.
Jul 2017 - May 2019 · 1476 m
DKS (PT Dan Kawan Semua)
Successfully led the product team to build the FellaCook platform, steering development direction with Golang, Scala, Java-Android, and MySQL.
Aug 2019 - May 2020 · 1660 m
Viatick (Viatick Pte. Ltd.)
Successfully built a mobile app for IoT and a web dashboard supporting IoT project development, with React Native, ReactJS, Java, NodeJS, and MySQL.
Jun 2020 - Jul 2021 · 1844 m
IDE2SEN (PT Ide Dua Sen)
Successfully led the development team to build the Nupos Point of Sale (POS) application from scratch to production, with Flutter, Golang, MySQL, and Docker.
Jul 2021 - Jan 2022 · 2029 m
Smartfren (PT Smartfren Telecom Tbk)
Successfully built an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) from scratch with Node.js, Flutter, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes, and taught Flutter to the development team.
Feb 2022 - Jul 2023 · 2213 m
PrimaKu (PT Cipta Medika Informasi)
Successfully built the development team from scratch, created a healthy work environment, and grew the PrimaKu mobile and web app products with Flutter, React.js, Next.js, and Nest.js.
Aug 2023 - Dec 2023 · 2397 m
PrimaKu (PT Cipta Medika Informasi)
Successfully led the engineering team and its leads to achieve company goals, aligning technical solutions with product goals and engaging the CEO on strategy.
May 2024 - Jun 2025 · 2581 m
Creds (WenNews LLC)
Successfully led the development team to build the Creds 3D-asset-based certification product from scratch, defining its technical architecture and strategy.
Sep 2024 - May 2025 · 2766 m
RecruitABLE (PT ABLE APP BALI)
Successfully led the development team through the migration to Flutter in developing RecruitABLE, a job search app built for the hospitality industry.
Sep 2025 - Dec 2025 · 2950 m
Svexa (Silicon Valley Exercise Analytics Inc)
Successfully developed Svexa, an exercise tracker app, as a cross-platform mobile application with Capacitor, delivering a single codebase deployable across multiple platforms.
Oct 2025 - Present · 3134 m
Waqfuel (PT Waqf Quantum Falah)
Co-founded Waqfuel and architected its platform as a Rust microservices system, leading all technology strategy and development.
Feb 2026 - Present · 3318 m
Sesambungan (PT Formlez Sesambungan Pakaryan)
Founded and built Sesambungan, a single-page platform letting entrepreneurs and small businesses create storefronts, take orders, and process payments.
May 2026 - Present · 3502 m
Send (Send Services Pte Ltd)
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. Successfully led the developer team to take the existing Send food ordering product, which was not yet production-ready, all the way to production. Also led the Sendy AI project, Stripe implementation, and migration from HPP to DBS MAX as Tech Lead at Send Services.
// The Route
From Yogyakarta to Singapore - a career built with different companies and teams.
// 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. Successfully led the developer team to take the existing Send food ordering product, which was not yet production-ready, all the way to production. Also led the Sendy AI project, Stripe implementation, and migration from HPP to DBS MAX as Tech Lead at Send Services.
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.
My engineering team is entirely Myanmar, while the business team is from Singapore and Vietnam. Working in a fast-paced international environment pushes me to communicate clearly, adapt across cultures, and make decisions quickly. I enjoy every bit of it.
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
Successfully developed Svexa, an exercise tracker app, as 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 managing my time, and just as much my energy, is a skill I still needed to sharpen.
First time working across 12+ hour timezone difference.
Summit Achievement
Successfully led the development team through the migration to Flutter in developing RecruitABLE, a job search app built for the hospitality industry.
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
Successfully led the development team to build the Creds 3D-asset-based certification product from scratch, defining its technical architecture and strategy.
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
Successfully led the engineering team and its leads to achieve company goals, aligning technical solutions with product goals and engaging the CEO on strategy.
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
Successfully built the development team from scratch, created a healthy work environment, and grew the PrimaKu mobile and web app products with Flutter, React.js, Next.js, and Nest.js.
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
Successfully built an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) from scratch with Node.js, Flutter, MongoDB, Docker, and Kubernetes, and taught Flutter to the development team.
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
Successfully led the development team to build the Nupos Point of Sale (POS) application from scratch to production, 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
Successfully built a mobile app for IoT and a web dashboard supporting IoT project development, with React Native, ReactJS, Java, NodeJS, and MySQL.
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
Successfully led the product team to build the FellaCook platform, steering development direction 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
Successfully developed a website for sentiment analysis with Scala (Lift), Semantic UI, JQuery, and MongoDB, turning raw data into insights that are easy to explore.
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
Successfully developed the backend for the GoBox project at Go-Jek with Scala (Play Framework), Slick, Elastic Search, and MariaDB, delivering reliable API services.
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
Successfully developed an internal back-office web platform from scratch to production with PHP (Laravel), a responsive AngularJS UI, and 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
Successfully developed many projects for manufacturing and pharmacy clients, delivering desktop, web, and mobile applications with C# .NET, PHP, and Sencha Touch, backed by hands-on on-site 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
Successfully developed several robust, user-friendly websites with Java (Spring MVC, EJB, Hibernate/JPA) and PHP (CodeIgniter, Smarty), delivering 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
Successfully reported critical bugs with clear, reproducible reports, helping developers fix them quickly and improving the reliability and performance of the game.
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
Helped my students understand the Java and PHP programming languages, turning complex concepts into clear lessons that beginners could apply hands-on.
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.
oculus.paiman.dev
Real-time open-source intelligence on one dark map: earthquakes, wildfires, live flights, ships, the ISS, about 23,000 public traffic cameras across five continents, world and cyber news, markets, and recon tools, driven by a terminal-style command bar. One small Node process acting as a caching proxy, running on a 256 MB machine.
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 in 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.
atlasbellorum.paiman.dev
An atlas of world warfare across the ages, mapping decisive battles from antiquity to the modern era with strategy, commanders, casualty figures labeled by reliability, and lessons told from multiple perspectives. Fully sourced, in Indonesian.
warismatika.paiman.dev
Learn Islamic inheritance law (faraidh) through four scholarly pathways, bilingual, with fully worked case studies, a faraidh calculator, a family-tree builder, and points of scholarly disagreement honestly marked.
formlez.com
The parent company behind Sesambungan, 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.
// Elevation Log
Summit pushes and high-altitude trails on foot - from the volcanoes of Java to the roof of Borneo and the Himalayas.
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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."
Based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, working remotely with the team in Singapore and Thailand.
// achievement unlocked
🏔️ Summit reached, climber.