The people who made me.
A shoutout that is long overdue.
There is a version of me that never made it past a small room in Jakarta. No internship. No AWS Singapore. No Infraloka. No Singapore awards stage. Just a kid with big dreams and no one to unlock the door.
But that version of me does not exist, because certain people showed up at exactly the right moment and chose to invest their time, energy, and belief in someone who had not yet proven much.
I have spent years talking about missions, products, and companies. Today I want to talk about people.
The people I owe a debt of gratitude to
My Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Startups team:
Jerome Poudevigne Zahra Zahid Kent Wangsawan Andrew Wangsanata Writom Guha Roy Supreet Sethi Riza Saputra
My Dearest Friends during tech U : Ayeon (Aya) Kim
My College in Tech U that's worth to see:
My Managers and mate during my time at Xendit
Shout out to Faris Alfa Mauludy Hensa Sigit Putra Theo Mitsutama Xavier Murias Roy Inganta Ginting James Choa
My managers Mo. Almezaiyin HUYNH CHI THONG
PT Pertamina Marine Solutions (PMSol) mate
Dr. Dian Prama Irfani Yessica Bella Silaban Michael Fedrix Ericho Abel Jehian Thoman Suryani Sitio
My lecturers and Mentors
Pak Umar Khayam
Prof Stella Christie
Coach Jaha Nababan
I have built a company. I have been featured in The Straits Times. I have fought legal battles in public and won the harder private ones about who I am.
None of that happened in isolation.
Every certification I hold, every line of infrastructure I have written, every mentee I have tried to lift through Infraloka's bootcamps and programs, traces back to someone who chose to give me something before I could give them anything in return.
That is the kind of leader I am trying to become. Not the loudest. Not the most decorated. The kind that someone, ten years from now, writes a post about.
If someone in your life opened a door for you that you have not thanked properly yet, this is your sign. The painting does not have to be Pangeran Diponegoro. It just has to be intentional.
*Rahmatan lil alamin.*A mercy for all creation. I am trying to be worthy of what you gave me.
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