Summary
Derianto Kusuma is a founder and seasoned software leader with 14 years of experience building large-scale web platforms and engineering organizations, now based in San Francisco. He co-founded and served as CTO of Traveloka, designing the original product, architecture, and technical culture that scaled the company to ~400 people across Southeast Asia. Previously he contributed core systems at LinkedIn and Microsoft, shipping robust scraping, extraction, and HTTP verification tooling during high-growth and platform-critical periods. Today he leads Sembly to reimagine collaborative, trust-first web experiences that prioritize substantive discourse over virality. Known for blending hands-on engineering with organizational design, he brings startup grit, systems-level thinking, and a penchant for tackling noisy, real-world coordination problems.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science, B.S. Computer Science at Stanford University
English, Indonesian