Summary
Sulthan Alam is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building backend systems and leading engineering teams across Indonesian startups. He has a track record of shipping end-to-end products—from a daycare web platform and employer marketplace to trader apps and loyalty systems—while driving measurable impact like 60% GCP cost reductions and 50% infra savings through migrations. As a technical lead he grew a team from 2 to 9 engineers, mentored senior engineers into leads, and introduced AI code-generation tooling that accelerated delivery and improved code quality. He’s hands-on with observability (OpenTelemetry, Grafana), Web3 integrations, Kubernetes, and cloud cost optimization, and enjoys learning edge technologies to make small changes that compound into large outcomes. Based in Jakarta and trained at Bandung Institute of Technology, Sulthan combines systems-level thinking with product sensibility and a bias for pragmatic engineering decisions. Notably, he pairs delivery focus with developer enablement—building tools and practices that scale team velocity as well as product features.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications Engineering at Bandung Institute of Technology