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I build infrastructure that survives crises I didn’t plan for.
Senior DevOps Engineer · Sole Infrastructure Owner · Singapore → UAE → Indonesia
Seven-plus years owning cloud and platform infrastructure end-to-end for fintech and e-commerce. Currently the sole DevOps engineer at a Series B regulated digital-asset fintech — AWS, security, and compliance, owned alone from day one.
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Proof, not promises
Every number is real and verifiable — including the parts that failed. The honest version is more useful than the impressive one.
A regulated digital-asset fintech · March 2026
Surviving the loss of an AWS region
Drone strikes destroyed AWS me-central-1. Every database and backup snapshot was unrecoverable. An analytics pipeline I had built months earlier — never meant for DR — became the recovery path.
2 weeksRegion-to-region recovery, end to end
$ readFasset · Series B fintech
Halving observability cost with LGTM
Replaced an $815/month New Relic bill with a self-hosted Loki · Grafana · Tempo · Mimir stack on Kubernetes — better retention, half the cost.
~50%Observability cost reduction
$ readULA · Sequoia-backed B2B marketplace
100% Spot in production e-commerce
All production compute on EC2 Spot at a ~$33K/month baseline — and held through a 2-month, ~10x traffic burst. Most teams quit Spot after their first interruption.
100%Of production compute on EC2 Spot
$ readFasset · Series B fintech
ISO 27001 + 27017, first attempt
Primary internal owner for both certifications at a regulated digital-asset fintech, where licensing depended on the result. Passed the external audit first time.
1stAttempt external audit pass
$ readPersonal project · inversedcramer.com
Inverse Cramer — a site that runs itself
A real-time pipeline that inverts Jim Cramer’s market calls, built end-to-end on serverless edge. Runs unattended for the price of a domain name.
~$0/moInfra cost — domain + minimal AI usage only
$ readOpen source · DocuMind AI
Confluence answers, delivered in Slack
Open-source assistant that answers questions in Slack from your real Confluence docs, using hybrid vector + keyword retrieval. Runs on ~$5/month.
~$5/moTotal hosting: EC2 t3.micro + MongoDB free tier
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Three countries, zero handovers
The pattern repeats: first or only infrastructure engineer, building from zero, in fintech and e-commerce across Singapore, the UAE, and Indonesia.
06/2022 — PresentDubai, UAE
Fasset
Senior DevOps Engineer · Sole DevOps Owner
Series B regulated digital-asset fintech ($51M raise). Sole DevOps engineer owning AWS, security, and compliance end-to-end — a three-region estate (37 ECS microservices, Aurora Global data tier, Cloudflare edge) run alone. Ran DevOps incident response through the March 2026 AWS UAE outage recovery; drove ISO 27001/27017 to a first-attempt pass; replaced New Relic with self-hosted LGTM; consolidated identity with Google SSO.
AWSEKSECSTerraformLGTMNew RelicServerlessCloudflareISO 27001/2701712/2019 — 06/2022Singapore
ULA
DevOps Engineer → Senior → DevOps Lead · Founding infra hire
B2B e-commerce marketplace backed by Sequoia, Tencent, and Lightspeed. Employee #1 on infrastructure — built the entire production platform from zero on AWS Well-Architected principles. Operated production at ~$33K/month on 100% EC2 Spot; led infra-side response through a 2-month, ~10x traffic burst; delivered a self-serve developer platform that removed DevOps tickets from the deploy path. Promoted twice.
AWSECSEC2 Spot FleetAPI GatewayTerraformJenkinsBashPython02/2019 — 12/2019Jakarta, Indonesia
Ralali.com
DevOps Engineer
Consolidated legacy infrastructure from Alibaba Cloud, GCP, and on-prem into a unified AWS platform via Terraform. Cut CI/CD build time 76% (21 → 5 minutes) through caching strategy; integrated DataDog, Rollbar, New Relic, Sonarcloud, and a payment gateway.
AWSECSTerraformGCPAlibaba CloudDataDog
earlier — software engineering
09/2018 — 02/2019
Software Engineer · Ralali.com
Cut API latency 80% (600ms → 100ms) through query optimization and database tuning. PHP · Laravel · MySQL.
02/2017 — 02/2018
Software Engineer · STTS Consultant
Built a supply chain and payment platform end-to-end as sole engineer, placed at client PT. Altech Omega Andalan. Laravel · PHP · SQL.
02/2016 — 02/2018
Teaching Assistant — Software Lab · Binus University
Best Performing Assistant award. Taught web design, database structure, operating systems, algorithms and programming, and computer networking.
certifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect — ProfessionalSep 2023 — Sep 2026
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes AdministratorDec 2022 — Dec 2025
- Certified Blockchain Architect™2023
- Certified Blockchain Expert™2023
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Open to senior DevOps, SRE, and platform roles
Remote-global, Singapore, Dubai / UAE, or Europe — open to relocation. Strongest fit: regulated fintech, crypto infrastructure, and high-growth startups that need a founding infra engineer.