Ari Pratama

Led a high-performing DevOps team, delivering scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure solutions across multiple product lines within the Ventures division.

• Directed the design and development of Athena, an AI-powered internal developer platform, streamlining onboarding, enhancing collaboration, and improving SDLC efficiency through self-service features and an Athena MCP Server for LLM integration.
• Optimized infrastructure capacity planning and provisioning, reducing operational costs by up to 29.84% while maintaining performance and compliance.
• Implemented GitOps workflows with ArgoCD, Terraform, and Kubernetes, ensuring consistent, repeatable deployments.
• Mentored team members, established best practices, and fostered a culture of automation, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.
• Conducted research and sharing sessions on AI Platforms, enabling the ventures team to create their own AI Agents and Workflows.

Created interactive and gamified AR experiences for prominent brands, driving measurable engagement and brand awareness through Instagram AR effects.

• Created interactive AR experiences for prominent brands, driving measurable engagement and brand awareness through Instagram AR effects.
• Designed and implemented gamified AR applications to enhance brand campaigns and product launches, maximizing campaign impact.

Designed and maintained cloud-native infrastructure, integrating advanced tools to enhance reliability and observability for high-impact projects.

• Designed and maintained cloud-native infrastructure, integrating Teleport, ArgoCD, Drone/Woodpecker CI, Traefik, Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana, and Loki for improved reliability and observability.
• Researched and implemented standardized tooling, reducing over-engineering and complexity to improve maintainability and align with cultural and operational needs.
• Orchestrated cloud infrastructure planning, provisioning, and system scaling across multiple high-impact projects.
• Developed detailed documentation and onboarding materials, ensuring smooth project transitions.

Built and maintained a self-service developer platform leveraging automation and ChatOps to ensure resilient Kubernetes clusters and efficient deployment processes.

• Built and maintained a self-service developer platform utilizing automation and ChatOps, leveraging n8n workflow for streamlined operations.
• Managed and maintained resilient Kubernetes clusters, ensuring consistent uptime and scalability.
• Oversaw the configuration and management of the Kong API Gateway.
• Streamlined secret management workflows through efficient Vault integration.
• Improved deployment processes by optimizing Terraform pipelines to accelerate changes and reduce overhead.

Guided onboarding of new staff, delivered stable handovers for live infrastructure projects, and provided ongoing technical support.

• Guided onboarding of new staff, ensuring knowledge transfer and project continuity.
• Delivered stable handovers for live infrastructure projects and comprehensive documentation.
• Provided ongoing technical support to both internal teams and clients post-full-time tenure.

Standardized infrastructure processes and managed cross-region Kubernetes for SaaS reliability, enhancing consistency and efficiency.

• Standardized onboarding through detailed documentation and created a wiki central knowledge repository using an open-source project.
• Established a single source of truth for infrastructure provisioning, improving consistency and efficiency.
• Adopted Terraform and GitOps principles for infrastructure-as-code, increasing reproducibility.
• Dockerized applications for the AI and Engineering teams to improve scalability.
• Designed and delivered setup wizards for cloud and on-premise environments, reducing deployment complexity using Ansible.
• Oversaw cross-region Kubernetes management for SaaS infrastructure reliability.

Advised on technology stack selection and encouraged DevOps best practices to improve team productivity and scalability.

• Advised on technology stack selection, ensuring alignment with long-term business goals.
• Encouraged adoption of best DevOps practices and documentation for scalable onboarding.
• Monitored and maintained the company's DevOps culture through stakeholder engagement.
• Helped implement tools and practices that improved overall team productivity.

Designed server architectures, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and containerized applications to enhance scalability and operational efficiency.

• Designed server architectures tailored to various projects and provided persistent environment management.
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines, significantly accelerating deployment cycles and reducing manual processes.
• Containerized application stacks using Docker and transitioned workloads to Kubernetes for enhanced scalability.
• Monitored, visualized, and improved server performance via alerting and telemetry dashboards using Grafana and Zabbix.
• Secured environments with web application firewalls and monitoring techniques.
• Produced thorough post-mortem analyses, enabling continuous operational improvements.

Managed office IT infrastructure, streamlined IT requests, and led the transition to Google Workspace, gaining foundational technical and client-facing experience.

• Managed office IT infrastructure, including troubleshooting, hardware lifecycle management, and network reliability.
• Introduced a ticketing system to streamline IT requests and task tracking.
• Led the transition to Google Workspace, enhancing internal communications and productivity.
• Oversaw maintenance of servers and internal assets, streamlining resource management.
• Set up and oversaw a rendering farm, supporting 3D animation production needs.

Created Instagram AR effects for prominent brands.

Internal Developer Platform integrating AI to enhance onboarding, collaboration, and SDLC efficiency.

Developed various AI-driven solutions through hackathon participation.

Self-service operation triggered by chat in Slack.

Easy wizard to set up Kata.ai SaaS on premise for banking industry clients.

Created an investment and user's financial checkup chatbot utilizing LLM and function calling for investment product recommendation.

Led development of an AI image generation pipeline combining in-painting and object detection to produce photorealistic transformations.

Built a fashion similarity search engine with vector database integration and AI-based image analysis.

Recognized for creating an autodeployment system using bash scripting and git-ftp service.

Recognized for implementing company-wide automation, including scripting for Account Executives in Google Sheets and improving task management with open-source software.