About Me

Gilang Gunawan

Hi! I’m Gilang, a full-stack software engineer based in Indonesia, currently working as an IT consultant. I enjoy building software that solves real problems, but I’m just as interested in understanding why things work the way they do. Whether it’s backend systems, developer tools, AI, or a random rabbit hole I stumbled upon at 2 AM, I genuinely enjoy learning and figuring things out.

Over the years I’ve worked on everything from internal tools and enterprise systems to public-facing web applications. More recently, I’ve been exploring open source, software architecture, and AI while documenting what I learn along the way.

Track Record

  • Built 5 enterprise applications (50+ modules) for World Bank & IFAD-funded agricultural programmes at Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture. This system supports HQ, 10 provincial offices, 300+ operational users, and 10K+ beneficiaries.
  • Reduced financial reporting cycles from 1 week to under 5 minutes (World Bank IFR) and from 30 days to 1 day (IFAD monthly consolidation)
  • Resolved a production scalability crisis that increased concurrent user capacity from ~1,000 to 30,000+
  • Built and operate Nemuhunian, a property marketplace with 700+ listings and 25K+ Instagram followers, as sole founder & engineer

Now

Working on

  • Enterprise software for a World Bank-funded initiative
  • Side projects for trying out new ideas and technologies

Writing about

  • My macOS setup and workflow
  • Things I learn while building software

Learning

  • Open source software
  • Agentic workflows
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
  • AI engineering

Uses

Hardware

  • Laptop: MacBook Pro 13“ (M1, 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD)
  • Monitor: Samsung Smart Monitor M5 (27“)
  • Storage: Synology NAS

Software

Infrastructure

  • Hostinger KVM VPS: self-managed server for hosting and experimenting with deployments, Docker, and server administration
  • Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, SSL, caching, and security for most projects
  • Cloudflare Pages: my go-to platform for deploying static sites and frontend projects
  • Vercel: where I deploy Next.js apps, prototypes, and personal experiments

Currently open to full-time, remote contract, and freelance opportunities. View my resume · hello@gilang.web.id