Andrew Ongko
Lead Software Engineer at Grab
Special capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Ongko is a Lead Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building cloud-native products and data-driven platforms across Southeast Asia, currently leading engineering efforts at Grab in Jakarta. He combines a strong software engineering foundation with hands-on data science experience—having led in-house analytics, ML teams, and newsfeed algorithms—to turn insights into scalable features. As a former VP of Engineering, he has migrated Kubernetes clusters to on-prem, established engineering ladders, and introduced OKRs and performance frameworks to improve delivery and culture. Comfortable in Python, Go, and TypeScript, he balances backend, infra, and SRE concerns with product-focused collaboration across designers and BI teams. Known for kindness as a signature strength, he invests in mentoring and removing blockers so teams can ship reliably.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
SMA Sutomo 1 MedanSD Sutomo 1 MedanSMP Sutomo 1 MedanBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Universitas Bina Nusantara (Binus)
Chinese, Indonesian, English
Github Skills (36)
sounds10
artificial-intelligence9
named-entity-recognition9
python9
text-classification9
natural-language-processing9
ai9
spacy9
cython9
nlp9
deep-learning8
entity-linking8
machine-learning8
data-science8
neural-network7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aongko/PythonCommon
Apr 2016 - Feb 2019
Contributions:15 releases, 1 PR, 31 pushes in 2 years 10 months
KurioID/kurio-research
Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
Kurio Research
Contributions:1 review, 8 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
machine-learning
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