Muktiadi Akhmad Januar / Solutions Architect
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Solutions architect with twelve years across enterprise software, data, cloud, and embedded systems. I take a business problem from the first conversation to a system people use every day, and I stay through the rollout.
12+
Years in Tech
80k+
Users on PFSeries 2.0
Full Cycle
Discovery to Rollout
How I work
Discovery first. I start with the people who own the process and write the requirement in their words before any architecture is drawn.
Steady under pressure. Led the IT and data side of a refinery crisis response, with the systems the operation ran on working within days.
Full-cycle ownership. From architecture to deployment and user adoption, I stay accountable for the outcome, not just the deliverable.
Human-first design. Every interface I build prioritizes clarity and empathy, turning complex workflows into tools people genuinely enjoy using, with optimized and efficient flows.
Organizations I've worked with
About me
Twelve years ago I was the only technical person at a small university, keeping it online on my own. Today I design the digital backbone of a national foundation. Everything in between, a refinery's reporting standard, a crisis response, a platform used by more than 80,000 people, came from the same habit: sit with the people who own the process, understand it properly, and build the system they will still be using years later.
I work well under pressure, and I have had to. The Balongan crisis response did not need a roadmap. It needed evacuee data, documents, and payments running within days, and it got them. Pressure like that strips a problem down to what matters. It taught me to ship the smallest thing that works, put it in front of real users immediately, and let their reaction decide what comes next.
Continuous improvement is a habit, not a program. The same instinct that took PF Lestari from a CIP forum Gold to Platinum at the Annual Pertamina Quality Award runs through the small things: a half-day meeting that now takes 45 minutes, a broken part measured, modeled, and printed instead of replaced, a process that loses a step every time I touch it. Failure is information, and the loop is the point.
So the rule underneath is simple. Start with the people who will use it, remove friction, and never add a step that does not earn its place. Technology should accelerate decisions, not decorate them. I write about this on the blog, and I am looking for a solutions architect role where that is the job.
Core Strengths
- Requirement discovery and solution design
- Hands-on build, from proof of concept to production
- Delivery under time-critical conditions
- Enterprise software, cloud, data, AI, and hardware
- Clear technical communication for executives
Education
Bachelor of Computer (S.Kom)
GPA 3.87 / 4.00Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung (Aug 2017 - Aug 2024)
International Exchange
- University
- Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Program
- Credit Transfer Mobility, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
- GPA
- 5.0 / 5.0
- Coursework
- Fundamentals of Enterprise, Quality Management, Computer-Aided Design, Electronics, Informatics, Open Lab
Academic roles
- Teaching assistant for Interoperability
- Committee member for FoITIC (Forum of Informatics and Computer Engineering International Conference), 1st & 2nd editions
Recognition
1st Winner, National ICT Olympic
Web Design Category
Ministry of Education & Culture
Presenter, PIMNAS 33
National Scientific Conference
Ministry of Research & Higher Education
HC Dashboard Adopted Nationwide
Officially launched by the Vice President of Human Capital
PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional
Platinum, Annual Pertamina Quality Award 2026
APQA Final Round, PC PROVE PF Lestari
PT Pertamina (Persero)
Awards
PF-Lestari's continuous improvement journey: Gold at Forum Sharing CIP Holding in December 2025, then Platinum at the Annual Pertamina Quality Award in June 2026.
Annual Pertamina Quality Award 2026
PC PROVE PF LESTARI · Pertamina Foundation
The final round of Pertamina's group-wide Annual Pertamina Quality Award, a different league from the preliminary CIP forum. Six months after taking Gold at Forum Sharing CIP Holding, PF-Lestari advanced to APQA and received the Platinum Category, with the certificate signed by the President Director and Group CEO of PT Pertamina (Persero).
June 15, 2026
Learn more on pflestari.id
Forum Sharing CIP Holding 2025
PC PROVE PF LESTARI · Pertamina Foundation
PF-Lestari, an AI-powered mobile and web platform that transforms biodiversity monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) across Pertamina Foundation's conservation areas replacing manual processes with real-time digital workflows.
December 19, 2025
Learn more on pflestari.idExperience
Twelve years across energy, defense research, academia, and a national foundation, from sole administrator to solutions architect.
Pertamina Foundation
IT Architecture & Solution
Architecting the digital backbone for one of Indonesia's largest corporate foundations, encompassing platform architecture, AI integration, and IT infrastructure modernization.
- Lead Architect for PFSeries 2.0: Engineered a ground-up digital ecosystem that eliminated legacy manual processes through full end-to-end automation, streamlining the entire registration-to-monitoring lifecycle.
- Architected the registration and monitoring platform serving more than 80,000 users, keeping it available through registration peaks.
- Introduced automated AI-driven interviews, with real-time voice and recorded video responses, to modernize candidate vetting in PFSeries.
- Led LiDAR and remote sensing initiatives to provide verifiable, high-precision carbon sequestration metrics supporting corporate ESG and reforestation sustainability goals.
- Consolidated fragmented data streams into a centralized executive dashboard, providing a 'Single Source of Truth' for real-time leadership decision-making.
- Delivered a unified digital platform to synchronize project monitoring and inter-departmental meeting alignment, improving overall organizational transparency.
- Developed a secure, integrated system for managing grant recipients and alumni, ensuring data integrity and auditability for long-term program impact evaluation.
- Designed and managed a comprehensive backup and disaster recovery strategy aligned with enterprise best practices to ensure business continuity for mission-critical data.
- Directed the overhaul of the foundation's IT systems, moving core services to a fully cloud-based architecture with secure network design.
PT Pertamina (Persero)
Human Capital Integration System & Analytics
Contributed to the holding company's digital HR transformation, unifying fragmented learning and knowledge management systems across Pertamina's subsidiary network.
Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung
Instrumentation & Control Specialist
Appointed as instrumentation and control specialist for a Rp2.8 billion LPDP-funded national research initiative, leading embedded systems architecture for an industrial bioenergy facility.
Innovative Working-Space Living Laboratory, Itenas
Senior Project Advisor
Directed IoT and defense technology initiatives at Itenas' innovation laboratory, bridging academic research with operational defense and automation applications.
Mukti Mechatronics
Self-Employed
Independent practice in rapid hardware prototyping and embedded system development, serving as a testing ground for applied engineering solutions.
PT. Kilang Pertamina Internasional
Data, System and Infrastructure Lead
Emergency deployment to the Balongan refinery crisis response team following a major industrial incident. Built the entire data and IT infrastructure for rapid-response operations from the ground up.
PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional
Human Capital Business Partner Intern
Selected for Pertamina's PMMB program within Human Capital at Refinery Unit VI. Delivered a reporting solution that was subsequently adopted as the national standard across all Pertamina refineries.
Universitas Winaya Mukti
System Administrator & Web Developer
Managed the university's complete web infrastructure and public-facing digital systems, ensuring continuous 24/7 operations as the sole technical resource.
Selected Projects
Systems in daily use, and the problem each one was built to solve.
Signing Ceremony
Digital signing platform for live events. One operator runs the ceremony, one signer draws on a tablet, and any number of screens follow the strokes in real time. No accounts and no installs, just a browser.
OpenHuman Capital Executive Dashboard
Human Capital dashboard incorporating KPIs and HC metrics across all Pertamina refinery units in Indonesia. Officially launched by the Vice President of Human Capital, it gave executives data-driven insight for strategic workforce decisions.
Saku
Personal finance app that works fully offline, with background sync and budget forecasting. Built as a progressive web app so it installs on a phone without an app store.
OpenInterview AI
Real-time AI interview coach built on the OpenAI Realtime API with an edge relay in Jakarta, supporting bidirectional audio streaming for live practice and automated candidate interviews.
Skills & Tools
The stack behind the work, chosen to fit the requirement rather than the trend.
Web & Application Development
Full-cycle platform development and delivery
Data, Analytics & Visualization
Transforming raw data into strategic intelligence
Embedded Systems & IoT
Industrial-grade hardware and control systems
Cloud & Infrastructure
Cloud infrastructure that stays up
Hands-On Engineering
Architecture does not stop at the screen. I design and 3D print physical parts with the same discipline I bring to systems: measure first, prototype early, iterate until it fits.
Measure, Sketch, Model
Every part begins with precise measurement of the original, a working sketch, and a CAD model with tolerances defined before anything reaches the printer.
Print, Fit, Return to Service
The printed part is fitted, tested, and adjusted until the equipment works as intended. Repairing rather than replacing is continuous improvement at household scale.
Beyond Work
How I keep my problem-solving instincts sharp outside the office.
Systems Thinking Through Play
Where curiosity meets engineering
I gravitate toward games that demand the same kind of thinking I apply professionally: designing systems, optimizing processes, and solving complex interdependent problems under constraints.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Building fully autonomous vehicles from scratch: ships, helicopters, planes, and trains. Each requires real programming logic, sensor integration, and control systems. The same engineering mindset I use at work, applied in a sandbox with no limits.
Factorio
Designing and scaling production systems with supply chain optimization, throughput analysis, and continuous improvement loops. It is, in essence, industrial process engineering disguised as a game.
What draws me to these isn't relaxation. It's the same drive that fuels my work: give me a complex system to design, constraints to work within, and a problem worth solving. My hobby is thinking, and I do it continuously.
Relentless Iteration
Inspired by Wintergatan Wednesday
Wintergatan Wednesday is a documentary series where Martin Molin builds an impossibly ambitious musical marble machine from scratch, with mechanical engineering, music, and craftsmanship converging into one project. As someone who studied mechatronics, the technical depth alone pulled me in. But what kept me watching, week after week, was something deeper.
Martin fails constantly, and openly. Parts break, designs prove unworkable, entire subsystems get scrapped after months of effort. Yet he never surrenders. Every failure becomes a lesson, every setback feeds the next iteration. He shows up every Wednesday with the same hunger to learn, to refine, to push forward. That relentless cycle of building, failing, improving, and building again captured in beautifully cinematic detail, is the most honest portrayal of engineering I have ever seen.
It mirrors how I approach my own work: continuous improvement is not a methodology, it is a mindset. The willingness to iterate, to treat failure as fuel rather than defeat, and to stay committed to a long-term vision even when the path is unclear.
Latest from the Blog
Recent thoughts on technology, architecture, and building things that matter.
Zero Servers, Zero Cost: Building PPE Detection That Runs in the Browser
My boss asked for a PPE detection proof of concept. I built one that runs entirely in the browser. Zero servers, zero GPU rental, zero recurring costs. It even runs on a standalone iPad Air 2020.
Representing Indonesia at Researchers Night in Hungary
During my exchange semester in Hungary, seven of us represented Indonesia at a university cultural event. We expected the rendang to be the main attraction. The Javanese totopong headwear had other plans.
How Leading Our AI Innovation Landed Me in Front of Pertamina (Persero)'s CEO
At the 15th anniversary of Pertamina Foundation, I had the honour of presenting our digital initiatives to the CEO and President Commissioner of PT Pertamina (Persero), an Independent Commissioner, and our own President Director. This is what that moment felt like.
Get in Touch
I am looking for a solutions architect or solutions engineering role with a vendor, an integrator, or a team that builds for enterprise customers. If that is what you are hiring for, I would be glad to talk.
"I build technology meant to disappear. The best systems do not demand attention. They remove friction, respect time, and support decisions quietly. I chase that moment when a complex day feels lighter, everything just works, and people can focus on what really matters."
Muktiadi Akhmad Januar