Hey, I’m Ibnu.
Bureaucrat by day.
Builder the rest of it.
Exploring the forces shaping our digital future.
- AI
- Intelligence
- Shapes how we create and work.
- Blockchain
- Value
- Explores how we own and exchange value.
- Cybersecurity
- Trust
- Protects our digital world.
Bureaucrat by day.
Builder the rest of it.
Civil servant at Indonesia's Ministry of Housing and Settlement Areas. M-shaped, across IT, healthcare, F&B, retail and government.
Custom LLM use cases, automation, and applied ML, built and run, not just studied.
On-chain literacy with working deployments and real market exposure.
Security-first practice across systems, data, and public infrastructure.
Government systems, language models on ministry hardware, dashboards across 38 provinces, automation fleets.
From bureaucrat
to builder.
Civil servant by day, crypto trader by night, AI builder in between. I've worked across five sectors and I now spend my working hours making government software that people actually want to open.
- IT
- healthcare
- F&B
- retail
- government
AI Engineer & Digital Transformation Lead
Government digital transformation. Building internal systems instead of procuring them.
Chief Operating Officer, then Managing Director
Grew a food & beverage operation from one outlet to 23.
Founder & CEO
Technology and strategy consulting for Indonesian mid-market companies.
Startup Advisor
Mentored 20 startups and ran 80+ matchmaking sessions with industrial partners, in a national programme that assessed 100+ applicants.
Founder & CEO
An RPA startup built for Indonesia's mid-market, grown from an undergraduate thesis.
Earlier ventures
A fashion label (co-founder, 2021) and a digital goods store (founder, 2017 - 2019).
The work, the curiosity, and the people behind it. A little more of the person you just met.
One minute for the big picture. Stay for the rest of the story.
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Computer Science (S.Kom)
Senior Executive MBA
PhD in AI
Not a list of interests. Each one earned its place by turning into work: an agent I run daily, a market I entered with my own money, and a threat model this site has to pass before it will build.
Three fields
I actually use.
Artificial Intelligence
Most people talk about AI. I build with it daily, in an environment where a mistake is a public-service outage, which is a very different teacher.
Blockchain & Crypto
You can't build what you haven't used. With $68K to $100K of personal trading volume, I'm not a casual observer of this market.
Cyber Security
Security is the precondition for everything else. A system nobody can trust is a system nobody uses.
Autonomous defence
Models that detect what rule-based systems miss, and the discipline to know when they are wrong.
Verifiable intelligence
Auditable lineage for model inputs and outputs. Verifiability as a design requirement, not an afterthought.
Trustless systems
Cryptographic guarantees replacing institutional promises.
What the work looks like.
Dashboards, swarms and ledgers: the visual language of the systems in the three fields above. Simulated data, rendered in code for this page.









The learning behind the work.
From understanding people to building intelligent systems. Explore the courses, ideas and practice that shape how I work.
Cybersecurity Specialization
GoogleOpen certificate ↗Machine Learning
Stanford UniversityOpen certificate ↗Claude Code in action
AnthropicOpen certificate ↗Foundations of Finance
University of CambridgeOpen certificate ↗Web3 & Blockchain Fundamentals
INSEADOpen certificate ↗AI Engineering Specialization
IBMOpen certificate ↗Supply Chain Management
MIT · MITxOpen certificate ↗English Proficiency
ETSOpen certificate ↗Rooms I've been in.
Bank Mandiri · WMM
Top 24 National Finalist
Selected as a Top 24 Finalist of WMM 2021 representing Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) with a digital health technology project (Healstation).
BRI Ventures
Pitching & Funding Evaluation
Pitched the product directly to the investment team for early-stage funding evaluation of a fintech startup and SaaS platform.
Alpha JWC
Venture Networking & Pitching
Participated in pitching sessions and early-stage business evaluation with investment analysts representing Alpha JWC.
1982 Ventures
Seed Pitching
Pitched a microfinance-management SaaS solution to investment partners at 1982 Ventures, a fintech-focused VC in Southeast Asia.
Sequoia VC
VC Pitching
Presented the business idea and startup technology for evaluation before a regional investment analyst.
Telkomsel TINC
Corporate Accelerator Pitching
Presented IoT and artificial intelligence (AI) products to the Telkomsel TINC corporate accelerator program for market-access synergy.
BLOCK71 / NUS Enterprise
Top 20, Community Open Incubation
Placed Top 20 in the BLOCK71 / NUS Enterprise Community Open Incubation, Singapore, with Automate All.
Shinhan Future's Lab
Accelerator Graduate
Graduated from the Shinhan Future's Lab Indonesia accelerator (Shinhan Financial Group, Korea), focused on financial-integration technology.
GK Plug n Play
Accelerator Cohort
Selected for the GK Plug and Play accelerator program, connecting the platform he built with multinational corporate partners.
Astra Startup Challenge
Selected Startup Participant
Selected for Astra's business incubation, passing business-valuation audits, mentor coaching, and development funding.
Kominfo · Startup Studio
Selected SSI Cohort
Passed a competitive selection into Startup Studio Indonesia (SSI) Batch 3, run by the Ministry of Communication and Informatics to accelerate Product-Market Fit (PMF).
IBM Institute · Mini MBA
Executive Business Graduate
Completed an executive business training program under the IBM Institute, focused on strategy and leadership for complex technology projects.
Building Connections
For me, building connections means meeting people, exchanging perspectives, and learning from others. These are moments from that ongoing journey.
HIPMI JAYA / KADIN Indonesia









Film & Image Portfolio
Films and stills. Each piece says how it was made: with AI, from real photographs, or both.












Read the Indonesian narration
Lagi cari rumah di Cilandak? Yang ini punya kolam pribadi, lho. Yuk, kita masuk dan lihat seperti apa ruang keluarganya.
Lihat deh, dari ruang keluarga langsung kelihatan kolamnya. Area makannya juga nyambung, jadi enak buat kumpul bareng. Sekarang kita cek kamarnya. Butuh kamar buat anak, tamu, atau ruang kerja? Coba lihat pilihan ruangnya. Kamar utamanya juga punya area lemari sendiri.
Sekarang lihat tampilan depannya. Harganya enam koma satu miliar rupiah. Kalau kamu lagi cari rumah di Jakarta Selatan, yuk ngobrol sama kita. Chat Cilandak, nanti kita kirim detailnya dan atur jadwal survei.
Come build something.
Questions about a tool, an idea worth arguing about, a collaboration, or a talk, all welcome. Typical reply within 24 to 48 hours.