Summary
Ilham F Saputra is an engineering manager and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable services across travel, e-commerce, and fintech products. Currently leading engineering at Booking.com after progressing from senior individual contributor roles, he combines hands-on coding in Python, Java, and Go with architecture design, hiring, and mentoring. His background includes performance improvements, ETL and financial dashboards at Traveloka, gamification and fraud projects at Shopee, and recommendation and NLP work earlier in his career. Comfortable across backend systems, data pipelines, and cloud platforms (GCP), he has a track record of lifting team delivery and automating processes to improve efficiency. Based in Amsterdam, he brings both strong CS fundamentals from University of Indonesia and a proven ability to grow engineers while shipping production-critical features.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Indonesia
English, Indonesian, Dutch