Herry Gunawan is a hands-on software engineering manager with 13+ years of experience building high-performing teams and shipping scalable product systems across startups and large tech firms in Indonesia. He has led engineering organizations at Ruangguru and Tokopedia and co-founded Gajiku, driving 15x company growth through fast iteration, low-cost infrastructure, and sub-five-minute deployment rollbacks. Currently at Amartha Financial he’s pioneering AI-native workflows and internal AI agents that boosted autonomous contributors from 15% to 60% and reduced incidents by ~30%. Known for turning firefighting teams into KPI-driven, autonomous groups, he routinely introduces tooling and processes that cut issue tickets by 70%+ and accelerate delivery cadence. He blends deep hands-on architecture and backend expertise with people development—mentoring leaders and standardizing hiring and growth rubrics to scale engineering cultures. Based in Jakarta, he pairs technical craft with a product-minded approach and a proven track record of operationalizing AI to improve developer productivity.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
SMA, IPA, 3.7, SMA, IPA, 3.7 at Strada St. Thomas Aquino
S-1 Sarjana Komputer, Information Technology, 3.70, S-1 Sarjana Komputer, Information Technology, 3.70 at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara
Master’s Degree, Creative Marketing, Master’s Degree, Creative Marketing at Binus Business School
Contributions:4 PRs, 49 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
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