Jakarta, Indonesia

Hey, I'm Faisal.

I keep systems running and engineers shipping. Currently leading infrastructure and platform reliability at a fintech company — wrangling Kubernetes, Terraform, and way too many AWS accounts.

About

I've spent the last 5+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure — mostly on AWS, occasionally multi-cloud. Started out managing networks and Linux boxes, worked my way through cloud engineering, SRE, and now I lead infrastructure and platform operations at a fintech company in Jakarta.

Day-to-day, I run Kubernetes clusters, Terraform across multiple AWS accounts, CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions is my main thing), monitoring stacks, and the occasional 2am incident that turns into a really good post-mortem. I've led multi-weekend migration programs, built release processes with proper rollback gates, and spent a lot of time turning click-ops into code.

I care about reducing toil, writing things down so future-me doesn't suffer, and making sure deployments are boring in the best way possible. When something breaks, I like to understand why it broke, fix the root cause, and make sure it doesn't happen again.

What I work with

Tools and technologies I use regularly. Not an exhaustive list — just the ones that matter.

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS My second home (and biggest bill) Terraform Infrastructure as code, bugs as YAML CloudFormation For when I feel masochistic AliCloud Plot twist: it's not just Alibaba shopping Ansible SSH into everything, regret nothing

Containers

Kubernetes It's not overkill if it works... right? K3s Kubernetes on a diet Docker Works on my machine (literally) ECS Containers without the kubectl anxiety ECR Where my images go to live their best life

CI/CD

GitHub Actions YAML engineer by day GitLab CI/CD The other pipeline OIDC Roles No more long-lived credentials!

Observability

Prometheus Alerting me at 3 AM since forever Grafana Making dashboards nobody reads CloudWatch AWS's way of saying 'good luck' New Relic The one that actually explains the outage

Networking

Cloudflare Standing between me and the DDoS WireGuard VPN but make it elegant Nginx Reverse proxy, forward progress Traefik Because config should be automatic Kong API gateway with a great name

Databases

PostgreSQL The database that does everything Aurora PostgreSQL but make it serverless TimescaleDB For when time is literally money Redis Cache me outside, how 'bout that

Languages

Bash #!/bin/bash # what could go wrong Python Automating myself out of work Go Fast, boring, perfect Node.js JavaScript escaped the browser

Journey

How I got here, in reverse.

Engineering Operations Lead

Fulk Tech

2023 — Present

Leading infrastructure, CI/CD, and platform reliability for a multi-brand fintech operation. Managing Kubernetes and ECS workloads across 5+ AWS accounts, building Terraform foundations, designing GitHub Actions pipelines with OIDC, and running large-scale migration programs with structured rollback strategies. Got promoted from SRE after consistently driving reliability improvements.

  • Built IaC foundations with Terraform across multiple AWS accounts
  • Designed staged release processes with smoke tests and rollback gates
  • Led weekend migration programs with Gate 1–7 decision frameworks
  • Created tooling and scripts the team uses daily for deployments

Site Reliability Engineer

MIFX (Monex Investindo Futures)

Jan — Nov 2023

SRE on a multi-cloud fintech platform handling real-time trading transactions. Built monitoring infrastructure, wrote Terraform from scratch, managed Kubernetes workloads, and participated in multi-cloud migration sprints from AliCloud to AWS.

  • Replaced CloudWatch with Prometheus + Grafana stack
  • Led Tableau Server migration (AliCloud → AWS) end-to-end
  • Executed PostgreSQL to Aurora migrations across environments

Cloud Engineer

PT Maha Karya Perwira

2020 — 2022

Designed and managed cloud and hybrid infrastructure. Set up CI/CD with self-hosted GitLab and Nexus, ran cloud migrations with Ansible, and implemented DR solutions with S3.

IT Support & Networking

PT Transformasi Mindset Indonesia

2016 — 2018

Where it all started. Managed network infrastructure, upgraded systems that improved data transfer speeds by ~40%, and learned that infrastructure is what I wanted to do.

Education

Bachelor of Information Technology

BINUS University, Jakarta — 2017 – 2023

Let's talk

Whether you want to geek out about Kubernetes, debate Terraform vs Pulumi, or just say hi — my inbox is open. No YAML required.

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