Eddie Ridwan
Convenor at OpenSID Open Source Community
Victoria, Australia
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Top SchoolEddie Ridwan is a seasoned software practitioner and open-source convenor with over a decade of experience building web applications and community platforms. Since 2016 he has led OpenSID, an adapted village information system now installed in thousands of Indonesian villages, and continues to steer the community to expand access, transparency and public service delivery. He founded multiple not-for-profit information initiatives (bangundesa.info, kabupaten.org) and has practical experience training NGOs to deploy tech in low‑resource settings. Earlier roles include senior programming and architecture work in Ruby on Rails for institutional clients, reflecting deep hands‑on engineering and product strategy skills. Based in Victoria, Australia, Eddie combines academic rigor from a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science with grassroots impact—his work focuses on making software usable by low‑tech users and enabling others to scale it further.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Canterbury
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Github Skills (24)
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Github contributions (5)
OpenSID/OpenSID
May 2016 - Jun 2021
Sistem Informasi Desa (SID) yang sengaja dibuat terbuka agar dapat dikembangkan secara bersama-sama oleh komunitas peduli SID
Contributions:109 releases, 176 reviews, 3350 commits in 5 years 2 months
desakomunitassidyangsistem-informasi
eddieridwan/tracksid
Apr 2018 - Aug 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 84 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 4 months
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