About
Muktiadi Akhmad Januar
Solutions Architect, South Jakarta, Indonesia
Solutions architect with ten years across enterprise software, data, cloud, and embedded systems. I take a business problem from the first conversation to a system people love to use. I move fast, and it ends up in daily use.
- 10+
- Years in the work
- 8
- Roles across four sectors
- 80,000+
- Users on one platform
- Platinum
- Pertamina Quality Award 2026
Platinum APQA 2026 How I work
Discover. Design. Deliver.
- 01
Discovery first
I start with the people who own the process and write the requirement in their words before any architecture is drawn.
- 02
Steady under pressure
Led the IT and data side of a refinery crisis response, with the systems the operation ran on working within days.
- 03
Full-cycle ownership
From architecture to deployment and user adoption, I own the outcome, not just the deliverable.
- 04
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.
About me
Every system I have built started with someone doing a job the hard way. An HR operator rebuilding a PowerPoint every month. A refinery reporting by spreadsheet. A crisis response with no system at all. The habit is the same each time: sit with the person, understand the job properly, build the smallest thing that works, and make it the way the job gets done from then on. The first working version is in their hands within days, and every version after it comes from watching what they do with the last one.
Ten years of that habit, from a university's only technical person to the platforms of a national foundation, taught me where the difference lies between a system that is used and one that is tolerated. It is in the flow. Every screen answers what to do next. A step that does not earn its place gets removed. A decision the tool can make for the user, it makes. Done well, the work feels lighter, and people open the tool because they want to, not because they were told to. That is what I mean by a system people love to use, and it is the only result I count.
Pressure does not change the method. It removes the excuses. When there is no time for a roadmap, the smallest thing that works goes in first and the loop runs faster, which is how a crisis response ended up with a working system in about a month. The same habit runs in quieter places: a meeting that loses three hours, a process that loses a step every time I touch it, a broken part measured and printed instead of replaced. Continuous improvement is a habit, not a program.
I am looking for a solutions architect role with an integrator or a vendor, where the job is doing this for customers. The parts I want are the ones I already do: discovery with the people who own the process, the design, the demo, and a build I can hand to a team.
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)
Experience
Ten years across energy, defense research, academia, and a national foundation, from sole administrator to solutions architect.
Pertamina Foundation
IT Architecture & Solution
Solution owner for the digital backbone of one of Indonesia's largest corporate foundations. I run discovery with the program teams, set the architecture, and own it through to daily use, across PFSeries 2.0, AI integration, and the move to a fully cloud infrastructure.
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.
Capabilities
What I bring into a discovery call, and what I build with after it.
Solution Design & Discovery
Where every engagement starts
Application & Integration
Proofs of concept that become production
Data & Executive Reporting
Numbers leadership acts on
Cloud, Security & Operations
Infrastructure that stays up
Hardware & Field
When the solution needs a sensor
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 ask for the same thinking I use at work: designing systems, tuning processes, and solving interdependent problems under constraints.
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Autonomous ships, helicopters, and trains built from scratch, with real control logic and sensors.
Factorio
Production lines scaled with throughput analysis and continuous improvement loops. Industrial process engineering disguised as a game.
My hobby is thinking, and I do it continuously.
Relentless Iteration
Inspired by Wintergatan Wednesday
Wintergatan Wednesday follows Martin Molin building an impossibly ambitious musical marble machine from scratch. Parts break, designs prove unworkable, whole subsystems get scrapped after months of effort, and he shows up the next Wednesday anyway with the same hunger to refine and push forward. It is the most honest portrayal of engineering I have seen.
It mirrors how I work: continuous improvement is a mindset, not a methodology. Failure is fuel, and the long-term vision has to survive an unclear path.
Organisations invest in business outcomes, not in technology. So I build technology meant to disappear.
The best systems do not demand attention. They remove friction, respect time, and support decisions quietly, until the only thing anyone notices is the outcome: a programme that runs, a decision made in time, an audit that passes.”
Muktiadi Akhmad Januar
Solutions Architect, South Jakarta, Indonesia
Get in Touch
If there is a problem you want to see working, in software, AI or hardware, I would be glad to talk.