Summary
Stefanus Hinardi is an investments professional and former software engineer with 11 years of experience spanning private equity, venture building, and cloud-scale product engineering. He co-founded Aksara Ventures and now works on private equity and credit at the Indonesia Investment Authority, combining hands-on startup mentoring (portfolio companies like Feedloop and Amoda) with institutional investing. Earlier roles at Microsoft and AWS grounded him in developer-facing products and conversational AI, while his academic work at UC Berkeley involved data-driven urban mobility research. He holds an MBA from Wharton with a quantitative finance focus and an EECS master’s from Berkeley, a blend that helps him evaluate technology bets with technical rigor and commercial acumen. Notably, he bridges deep engineering experience—shipping cloud and AI systems—with active deal-making and product-building in Southeast Asia.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's, EECS, Master's, EECS at University of California, Berkeley
IB Diploma, IB Diploma at St. Joseph’s Institution International
Canisius College (Kolese Kanisius)
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Quantitative Finance, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Quantitative Finance at The Wharton School
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Indonesian, English