Rizki Akbar is an engineering manager based in Tokyo with 11 years of experience building and scaling customer-facing financial products, currently overseeing funding source integrations at PayPay. He moved up from hands-on software engineering and technical lead roles to manage multiple subdomains such as bank, card, ATM and carrier billing, bringing product-first discipline to complex payment flows. Rizki has a strong background in platform and reliability work—driving CI/CD, Kubernetes migrations, change data capture, and scaling live streaming to 10k+ concurrent users—which informs his pragmatic approach to operational excellence. He contributes to open-source tooling for HTTP load generation and real-time plotting, reflecting a curiosity for performance measurement and testability. With an MSc in Cybersecurity and a top-ranked CS bachelor’s degree, he blends security-aware thinking with deep engineering and mentoring experience across Southeast Asian tech ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Merit, Master of Science, Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Merit at University of Sunderland
Bachelor of Computer Science, Informatics, 3.92/4.00, Bachelor of Computer Science, Informatics, 3.92/4.00 at University of Brawijaya
Generate HTTP load and plot the results in real-time
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 13 days
Contributions summary:Rizki contributed to the `ali` project by adding new features and improving existing functionality. Their work included implementing options to control worker behavior and adding a histogram option. The user also addressed issues related to testing and corrected formatting. Their contributions focused on improving the tool's features and usability.
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 9 months
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