Summary
Giri Kuncoro is a seasoned software and systems engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, currently working across SRE and platform roles at TikTok/xAI and GoTo Group. He helped launch Pivotal Container Service within a VMware/Google/Pivotal collaboration and later led development of a multi-cloud Kubernetes and Istio-based developer platform that runs 5,000+ microservices and processes billions in transactions annually. Giri’s background blends hands-on systems engineering (Kubernetes, Golang, Linux, KVM) with research-informed rigor from a Cornell Master’s in Information Science, and he has presented platform and service-mesh work at major Kubernetes conferences. He previously engineered EV infrastructure at Toshiba (holding two patents) and built high-performance analytics systems at GE Digital, showing a pattern of tackling domain-critical, large-scale problems. Trilingual in Japanese, English, and Bahasa Indonesia, he pairs cross-cultural communication with deep technical leadership across on-prem and cloud environments. An interesting detail: he left EV systems work in Tokyo to pursue graduate study that directly influenced his cloud and distributed systems career.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung
Master, Information Science, Master, Information Science at Cornell University
Japanese, English, Indonesian