Summary
Ali Irawan is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over two decades of experience building cloud-native, API-first platforms and scaling engineering organisations across startups and regional scale-ups. He currently leads the development of a multi-tenant white-label SaaS platform for F&B brands, unifying mobile ordering, payments, loyalty and PoS integrations with a strong focus on reliability, cost-aware performance, and observability. A former educator and founder, Ali blends hands-on architecture work with people-first leadership—growing teams, instituting SDLC rigor, and mentoring engineers to raise delivery velocity. He has a track record of modernizing legacy systems to microservices on GCP, enabling rapid regional expansion at Flash Coffee and multiple ventures. As a fractional CTO and advisor he helps founders align technical strategy with business outcomes, often introducing AI-assisted workflows to boost developer productivity. Based in Jakarta, he pairs practical product-minded engineering with an educator’s knack for documentation and knowledge transfer.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, 3.85 / 4, Bachelor, Computer Science, 3.85 / 4 at Universitas Bina Nusantara
Indonesian, English, Chinese