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Spotting the bottleneck in work everyone has quietly accepted as normal. Not because I mind doing it, but because hours spent repeating it are hours not spent on anything worth more. That habit has carried across all of my work; only the tools changed.

Technology moves fast, and I move with it rather than settling into one way of doing things. I’m not tied to any one tool, so I pick up whatever stack is in place quickly. And when the simple option serves the business better than the clever one, that’s the one I’ll back.

I started in IT services, moved into the national research agency, then spent the longest stretch of my career in telecommunications, first at Telkom directly and later running AIOps R&D for a major telco’s cloud operations at Tech Mahindra. In between I built for Sampoerna, one of Indonesia’s largest tobacco companies and part of Philip Morris International. Across those roles I worked with colleagues and clients of many nationalities and backgrounds. Each shift meant a new industry with its own rules, and I’ve never been the kind to shy away from that; picking up an unfamiliar domain is part of the work.

Indonesian citizen, based in Bogor and working in GMT+7. Onsite across the Greater Jakarta area works out of the box, and I’m open to relocation within Indonesia if it’s provided. Overseas relocation is fine too, given visa sponsorship. For remote work, I’m available across EMEA and APAC time zones.

The best first step is an email; from there we can settle on whatever works. For a phone call, send a WhatsApp first and we’ll set a time. Online sessions work best between 2 PM and 8 PM GMT+7. For anything onsite, a few days’ notice helps; three days ahead is ideal.

Because the alternative is people absorbing the same work by hand, every day, forever. I’m a victim of that fatigue too. I’m the one who gets called on the weekend or at 3 AM, and I’d like to be the last one who ever has to. The way I see it, the ideal IT infrastructure engineer is the one relaxed enough to be swimming in the Bundaran HI fountain on a Wednesday morning, because nothing is on fire back at the office.

Mostly by staying in the middle of it. I’m active in the IT community online, following the people actually shipping things and joining the discussions rather than just reading about them later. I attend events and meetups when I can, since a hallway conversation often teaches more than a release note. And honestly, a healthy dose of FOMO helps; not wanting to be the last one to hear about something is a surprisingly good reason to keep learning.