Gilang Gunawan
Full-stack software engineer with 4+ years building enterprise systems for World Bank and IFAD-funded agricultural programmes at Indonesia’s Ministry of Agriculture. Specializing in Laravel, Go, and Next.js, covering everything from system architecture and full-stack development to deployment, production operations, and long-term maintenance. Also active as a solo founder, running Nemuhunian, a property marketplace with 700+ listings.
Currently open to full-time, remote contract, and freelance opportunities.
Experience
Software Engineer / IT Consultant
Ministry of Agriculture of Indonesia
Feb 2022 - Present
World Bank & IFAD-funded agricultural development programs (US$238M+ combined funding).
- Designed and delivered 5 enterprise applications with 50+ modules, supporting HQ, 10 provincial offices, 300+ operational users, and 10K+ beneficiary accounts across World Bank & IFAD programs.
- Built integrated financial reporting platforms, reducing World Bank IFR reporting from 1 week to under 5 minutes and IFAD financial consolidation from 30 days to 1 day.
- Optimized enterprise databases supporting 200K+ beneficiaries and 31K+ financial transactions, reducing report execution from minutes to seconds.
- Integrated 4M+ farmer records with the Ministry of Finance (SIKP), enabling nationwide agricultural financing analysis and audit processes.
- Resolved production scalability bottlenecks for a high-traffic ministry platform, increasing capacity from ~1K to 30K+ concurrent users through Apache load balancing, dedicated database architecture, and Cloudflare WAF/DDoS protection.
- Developed executive KPI dashboards consolidating financial, operational, and beneficiary data into real-time insights for project directors, auditors, and government stakeholders.
- Owned end-to-end software delivery, from solution architecture and full-stack development to deployment, production operations, and long-term maintenance.
Software QA Engineer
PT Tower Bersama Infrastructure Tbk
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
One of Indonesia’s largest independent telecom tower providers (24K+ sites).
- Validated 50+ enterprise modules across ERP, project management, and marketing systems through hundreds of test cases, SIT, and UAT, collaborating with cross-functional engineering and business teams.
- Designed and delivered an internal QA management platform, replacing spreadsheet-based workflows with centralized testing documentation, manual book management, and developer KPI tracking while collaborating with a junior software engineer and an intern.
- Contributed to the Platinum Award-winning SADAKO initiative, eliminating requirement-stage project delays (22 to 0 cases) through user story standardization and engineering knowledge management.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science
IPB University
2016 - 2020
Projects & Achievements
- Nemuhunian: AI-Powered Property Platform. Built an AI-powered property platform using Go and Next.js, designing scalable backend APIs, AI-powered search, SEO automation, and CI/CD workflows.
- Platinum Award, TKMPN 2021. Recognized for contributing to the award-winning SADAKO (Systematic Design & Knowledge Organizer) engineering platform.
- Top 10 National Finalist, GEMASTIK XI 2018. Developed Eventarich, an ICT platform for event organizers.
Skills
Languages Go • PHP • TypeScript • JavaScript
Frameworks & Libraries Laravel • Next.js • React
Databases PostgreSQL • MySQL • Redis
Infrastructure & DevOps Docker • GitHub Actions • Cloudflare • Linux
Other System Design • Backend Architecture • AI Integration • SEO