Resume
Akhyar Amarullah
Email: [email protected]
Location: Yogyakarta, Indonesia
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/akhyar
GitHub: github.com/akhy
Summary
DevOps Engineer with extensive experience building cloud-native platforms and infrastructure automation. Started as a full-stack developer, now applying that developer-first mindset to platform engineering at scale. Led Kubernetes adoption and multi-cloud migrations at Gojek, significantly reducing infrastructure costs while improving reliability. Expert in designing deployment systems, CI/CD pipelines, and internal tooling that make developers more productive and operations more reliable.
Work Experience
DevOps Engineer – Gojek (GoTo Group)
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Jan 2024 – Present
Container Deployment Platform Team
- Transferred internally to focus on company-wide platform-level abstractions and tooling on top of Kubernetes.
- Rewrote an internal deployment orchestration API (Rails-based), replacing a custom Helm wrapper with ArgoCD, which improved service reliability and enhanced operational visibility for developers.
- Initiated and led the migration of the Merchant Platform to the centralized container platform and tooling, aligning it with broader platform standards.
- Redesigned the container platform architecture to support multi-cloud environments, enabling seamless cloud migration and long-term scalability.
- Collaborated with platform and product teams to migrate ~700 containerized workloads across cloud providers, resulting in over 50% savings on monthly infrastructure costs.
DevOps Engineer – Gojek (GoTo Group)
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Jan 2019 – Aug 2024
Merchant Platform Team
- Supported infrastructure development and operations for the Merchant Platform business unit.
- Built and maintained systems in GCP from the ground up, including IaC (Terraform, Chef), CI/CD automation, secret management, observability, and 24/7 incident response covering 30+ microservices.
- Implemented security best practices aligned with PCI-DSS compliance.
- Standardized application delivery using ArgoCD and internal tooling conventions.
- Built internal tools in Go to automate provisioning of standardized databases (MySQL, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Redis) in GCP using Terraform and Chef.
DevOps Engineer – Midtrans
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Apr 2018 – Dec 2018
- Containerized a legacy POS (Point-of-Sale) backend written in PHP to be Kubernetes-ready by applying 12-factor app principles.
- Implemented automated build and deployment pipelines for legacy card payment Java applications using Jenkins, reducing release cycle time from ~1 day to under 30 minutes and eliminating the need for a manual deployment team.
DevOps Engineer – PrismApp
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Dec 2015 – Apr 2018
- Initially served as a QA Engineer, automating REST API testing in BDD style.
- Supported infrastructure operations for Prism, a chat-to-buy SaaS backed by MQTT, RabbitMQ, MySQL, CassandraDB, and more.
- Migrated ~25 microservices written in multiple languages into a single monorepo with unified build pipelines and tooling using Jenkins and Python.
- Ensured zero-downtime deployments using Docker Compose, Nginx load balancing, and Jenkins.
- Wrote a Slack bot in Go to help 15+ engineers create application secrets using asymmetric encryption backed by Bitnami SealedSecrets, reducing manual error rates.
Mobile Engineer – Onebit
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | Apr 2013 – Dec 2015
- Developed Android applications from mockups and client requirements into production-ready builds with maintainable Java and Kotlin codebases.
- Collaborated with backend engineers to improve application reliability.
- Maintained Jenkins pipelines for automated builds and Play Store releases, reducing release time from several hours to under 30 minutes.
Freelance Full-Stack Web Developer
Yogyakarta, Indonesia | 2011 – 2013
- Built and maintained web-based information systems for academic and government clients.
- Developed multiple internal tools for Universitas Islam Indonesia, including a lecturer portfolio management system.
- Delivered a financial information system for the Ministry of Finance of Indonesia through Komuri Intermedia.
- Worked across the full stack in PHP, handling everything from database design to frontend implementation and deployment.
Education
Bachelor in Informatics Engineering
Universitas Islam Indonesia, 2012
Skills
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Chef, Ansible), CI/CD (GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Jenkins), Containers (Docker, Kubernetes), Cloud Platforms (GCP, AWS, Tencent), Observability (Prometheus, Grafana), Scripting (Bash, Python, Ruby), Developer Tooling (Go, Rails)