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Muktiadi Akhmad Januar Solutions Architect
I build
Executive Dashboards
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 Tech
80k+
Users on PFSeries 2.0
Full Cycle
Discover, Design, Deliver
How I work
Discover. Design. Deliver.
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 own 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
Product videos
The work, shown in a minute.
Discovery and design only count if something ships. These are products I crafted and shipped, each walked through screen by screen and role by role, from the first step of the process to the last.
Programme story
Seleksi AI
AI reads every application and every recorded exam overnight. Verifiers, aggregators and judges make each decision.
Onboarding for an internal app
Email Broadcast
AI inside the business workflow, not beside it. A WhatsApp brief becomes a ready email in one click, then goes to every recipient by name.
Discover. Design. Deliver.
Have a process that needs a system?
Every product above started with the people who own the process. I run the discovery with them, design the flow and the architecture around how they already work, and deliver a system they use from the first week, through integration, data, cloud, and rollout.
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
2016
1st Winner, National ICT Olympic
Web Design Category
Ministry of Education & Culture
2020
Presenter, PIMNAS 33
National Scientific Conference
Ministry of Research & Higher Education
2021
HC Dashboard Adopted Nationwide
Officially launched by the Vice President of Human Capital
PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional
2026
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.
Platinum APQA, Final Round
Annual Pertamina Quality Award 2026
PC PROVE PF LESTARI · Pertamina Foundation
Six months after Gold at Forum Sharing CIP Holding, PF-Lestari advanced to the group-wide final round 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
Gold CIP, Preliminary Round
Forum Sharing CIP Holding 2025
PC PROVE PF LESTARI · Pertamina Foundation
PF-Lestari, the mobile and web platform for biodiversity monitoring, reporting, and verification across Pertamina Foundation's conservation areas. Field capture, drone LiDAR mapping, AI tree counting, and a public portal replaced paper and spreadsheet workflows across more than 2,000 hectares and 5 million planted trees.
December 19, 2025
Learn more on pflestari.idThe one I would tell first
Balongan, 2021
A refinery fire, damaged houses across the surrounding villages, and compensation that had to be right the first time. One platform carried it from the first field photo to the state audit.
One platform, from field photo to audit
- Field photo and description
- PUPR and Pegadaian assessment
- Compensation computed
- Berita acara and kuitansi
- Bank file
- Progress and audit export
- 1 Field photo and description
- 2 PUPR and Pegadaian assessment
- 3 Compensation computed
- 4 Berita acara and kuitansi
- 5 Bank file
- 6 Progress and audit export
The Balongan refinery fire damaged houses across the surrounding villages. The response had to record every damaged property, have it assessed, agree the compensation, pay it, and later prove every rupiah to the insurers and the state auditor. There was no system for any of it. I was brought in as the data, system, and infrastructure lead. The platform took about a month to build, and the year after it was insurance and paperwork, all carried on the same records.
What I chose
- One platform for the whole chain, from field photo to bank file. Field teams captured photos and a description per house. PUPR's building assessment and Pegadaian's property valuation landed on the same record.
- Compensation computed from the record, never typed. Aggregated per owner, with the berita acara and kuitansi generated by the system.
- Bank files generated from approved records only, so the payment list and the platform could never disagree.
- Progress and money out aggregated live for management, next to the shelter dashboard in Power BI that management and BNPB read without training.
- Every record exportable for the insurance claim audit.
Who was in the room
Pertamina managementBNPBPUPRPegadaianFinancePartner banksCorporate ICTField team
What I set aside
- A spreadsheet per team, with documents and bank lists typed by hand.
- Custom payment rails of any kind. The banks' own wire process stayed.
- Anything that needed training before it could be used under pressure.
What happened
The shelter dashboard was used by Pertamina management and BNPB and shown in national media. Compensation ran from registration to bank on one system. The same data carried the insurance claim audit, and years later Badan Pemeriksa Keuangan, the state audit board, audited the whole programme. It passed.
Experience
Ten years across energy, defense research, academia, and a national foundation, from sole administrator to solutions architect.
Jun 2025 - Present South Jakarta Full-time
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.
- Lead architect for PFSeries 2.0, the registration-to-monitoring platform that replaced spreadsheets and manual steps across the foundation's social programs.
- 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 one executive dashboard that leadership uses for day-to-day decisions.
- 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.
Dec 2024 - Jun 2025 South Jakarta Contract
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.
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025 Bandung Contract
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.
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024 Bandung Contract
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.
Dec 2022 - Present Bandung Self-Employed
Mukti Mechatronics
Self-Employed
Independent practice in rapid hardware prototyping and embedded system development, serving as a testing ground for applied engineering solutions.
Mar 2021 - Mar 2022 Indramayu Contract
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.
Sep 2020 - Feb 2021 Indramayu Internship
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.
Mar 2016 - Oct 2019 Sumedang Contract
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
Four systems in daily use. For each, the problem I was handed, the call I made, and what happened next.
2026 Live Product
Signing Ceremony
Live at signing.muktiadi.com
- Problem
- At a launch event the officials sign on stage, in front of the room. The usual setup is one tablet drawing over a PDF, with misclicks, lost strokes, and the occasional signature wiped by accident while everyone watches.
- Decision
- A purpose-built app instead of a PDF viewer. One tablet, one laptop, one signer at a time, and every screen in the venue follows the pen. Nothing to install and nothing to delete by accident.
- Result
- Live, and used at real ceremonies.
2021 Data & Digital Transformation
Human Capital Executive Dashboard
Launched by the VP of Human Capital
- Problem
- Monthly HC reporting rebuilt by hand at each refinery, with no comparable view for executives.
- Decision
- Build on Power BI, the tool management already opened, with KPIs refined together with the HC team rather than invented for them.
- Result
- Replicated at RU IV Cilacap, then adopted by head office across every refinery unit.
2024 Offline-First PWA
Saku
Live at saku.muktiadi.com
- Problem
- Money tracking that stops working the moment the signal drops or the app store says no.
- Decision
- Offline first. Data lives on the phone, syncs in the background, and the app installs from the browser without an app store.
- Result
- Live, with budget forecasting on top of the ledger.
2025 AI & Real-Time Voice
Interview AI
Used in PFSeries candidate vetting
- Problem
- Screening scholarship applicants at scale without exhausting the interview panel.
- Decision
- Automate the screening interview, not the human one. Real-time voice in the browser on the OpenAI Realtime API, plus recorded video responses. Panel interviews stayed on Zoom on purpose.
- Result
- In production, and demoed live to Pertamina's CEO and President Commissioner.
Capabilities
What I bring into a discovery call, and what I build with after it.
Solution Design & Discovery
Where every engagement starts
Requirement DiscoveryBusiness Process AnalysisTarget ArchitectureBuild vs BuyProposals & Live DemosExecutive Briefings
Application & Integration
Proofs of concept that become production
SvelteKitNode.jsJavaScript / TypeScriptPythonPHPSQL & MySQLPocketBaseREST APIsWebSocket
Data & Executive Reporting
Numbers leadership acts on
Power BIKPI FrameworksData ModelingETL PipelinesDashboard Design
Cloud, Security & Operations
Infrastructure that stays up
CloudflareDocker & CapRoverLinuxNetwork DesignAccess ControlBackup & Disaster Recovery
Hardware & Field
When the solution needs a sensor
STM32 / ESP32 / ArduinoInstrumentation & ControlCAD & 3D PrintingDrone LiDAR & Remote Sensing
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.
01 Design
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.
02 Repair
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.
Measure Model Print Validate
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.
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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