Deby Candrakirana

Technical Lead · Data Platform & Streaming · Microsoft Fabric & Azure · Reporting & AI · Product & Data Operations

Jakarta, Indonesia · debycandrakirana@gmail.com · +62 817 343 935

linkedin.com/in/debycandrakirana · github.com/debycandra · debycandrakirana.com

Professional Summary

Technical Lead and data professional with 13 years in tech (since 2013), including 7 years in data engineering (since 2019), across IT consulting, agri-tech, fintech, telco, oil & gas, mining, and healthcare. Track record of building end-to-end data platforms, leading cross-functional teams of up to 30 members, cutting cloud costs by ~60%, and turning operational data into decisions. Currently a contract Technical Lead at a stealth startup delivering use-case-based initiatives for an oil & gas client: OT device streaming pipelines on Microsoft Fabric and Azure, operational reporting, and AI use cases. Previously Head of Product & Data Operations at Koltiva.

Key Achievements

Reduced cloud/data-platform cost by ~60% through BigQuery architecture and query optimization (EdenFarm)
Led cross-functional teams of up to 30 members across QA, Data Operations, Product Operations, and Engineering
Scaled a data engineering team from 2 to 5 and reskilled 5 system analysts into data engineers within 3 months
Delivered data & product outcomes across 7 industries: IT Consulting, Fintech, Telco, Oil & Gas, Mining, Healthcare, Agri-tech
Built OT device streaming pipelines (Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Fabric Eventstream) for an oil & gas client, supporting operational reporting and AI use cases
13 years in tech (since 2013), including 7 years in data engineering (since 2019)

Professional Experience

Technical Lead — Stealth Startup · Contract (Oil & Gas Data Platform · NDA)

Jul 2026 – Present

Delivering real-time operational visibility for an oil & gas client by architecting OT device streaming pipelines (Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Fabric Eventstream) into a governed Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse with standardized ETL
Enabling data-driven operations by delivering use-case-based reporting and AI initiatives (Azure AI Foundry, Document Intelligence) on the streaming platform
Closing solution gaps and strengthening team capability by partnering with the PM on solution design and mentoring the junior data team

Head of Product & Data Operations — Koltiva

Jun 2025 – Jun 2026

Delivered faster, more reliable service operations and improved resolution efficiency by 30% by leading a 13+ member cross-functional team across Global Helpdesk, Customer Support, Product Operations, and Data Operations
Accelerated continuous improvement across Product, Development, and Operations by running AI clustering analysis to surface data-driven insights and reduce recurring issues
Reduced escalation resolution time by 40% and strengthened cross-department collaboration by owning the Tier 1/Tier 2 escalation process

Head of IT Governance & Quality Assurance — Koltiva

Aug 2024 – May 2025

Reduced regression testing time by 45% and standardized QA across B2B and B2C product lines by leading 20–30 QA engineers to build an execution-time-based, automation-integrated testing framework
Strengthened audit compliance and master-data integrity by supervising data-quality initiatives and authoring database user-access control SOPs

Data Integrity & System Audit Manager (Project Lead) — Koltiva

Mar 2024 – Jul 2024

Delivered a company-wide ERP alignment roadmap spanning 10+ integrated systems and closed 15+ critical data-integrity gaps by leading a CEO-appointed audit across Product, Technology, and Operations

Head of Technology — EdenFarm

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024

Reduced infrastructure costs by 25% and improved delivery throughput by leading team restructuring and cloud optimization across Product, DevOps, Engineering, IT Operations, and Data Engineering
Accelerated roadmap delivery and improved vendor cost efficiency by 20% by owning quarterly technology planning aligned to business growth targets

Data Engineer Manager — EdenFarm

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023

Reduced cloud costs by ~60% by architecting a BigQuery-based data platform and leading pipeline and query optimization
Delivered a fully productive data team with zero onboarding downtime by scaling engineering from 2 to 5 and reskilling 5 system analysts into data engineers within 3 months
Reduced data-access incidents by 40% and improved BI reliability by establishing data governance policies and data-access SLAs for downstream teams

Freelance Project Collaboration – Lead DE & Senior DE — Healthcare Industry • Mining Industry

Aug 2023 – Early 2024

Delivered production data engineering for a healthcare project (Lead DE) and a mining project (Senior DE) and improved pipeline reliability by 30% across both — as project-based collaborations after hours and on weekends

Team Lead & Tech Lead – Data Engineering & Data Science — XQ Informatics (IT Consulting)

Jul 2019 – Jan 2023

Delivered end-to-end data platforms for 4+ concurrent clients (telco, oil & gas, mining, fintech) and improved delivery speed by 30% by leading cross-functional teams of 10+ engineers as embedded third-party tech lead
Reduced data-processing latency by 50% and enabled real-time analytics by building a mining data platform (Kafka/SCADA → NiFi → Spark → HDFS → Apache Superset) and migrating a lab data warehouse to the Hadoop ecosystem
Earned promotion from Data Engineer & Data Visualization Specialist to Team/Tech Lead within ~6 months by consistently delivering across multiple client engagements

Head of System Development — PT. Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta)

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019

Improved software delivery governance and reduced vendor project overruns by 30% by leading development teams and overseeing third-party evaluation, contracts, and executive reporting at Jakarta's public transit authority

Frontend → Full Stack Developer — Dattabot (Digital Tech & Data Consulting)

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018

Built and shipped performant, data-driven web applications across multiple digital product platforms

Web Developer — PT EDI Indonesia (Government Payment Systems · Banking IT)

Apr 2015 – Jun 2016

Delivered reliable government tax payment web modules (eTax, MPN G-2) by developing and integrating them within the banking team

IT Support, Lab Assistant & Freelance Web Developer — Bank (IT Support) · Universitas Gunadarma · Freelance

2013 – 2014

Kept core banking operations stable and reliable as IT Lead Support at a bank, supported lab instruction at Universitas Gunadarma, and delivered freelance web projects during undergraduate studies

Skills

Data Engineering: Apache Kafka, NiFi, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Airflow, dbt, Pentaho, Python, SQL, Fivetran, PostgreSQL, Parquet, Medallion Architecture

Microsoft Fabric & Azure: Microsoft Fabric, Fabric Eventstream, Lakehouse, Azure Event Hubs, Azure IoT Hub, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Document Intelligence, OT/IoT device streaming, ETL/ELT standards

Cloud & Platform: Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery), Microsoft Azure, Hadoop Ecosystem, Apache Kafka Streaming, VM Infrastructure

Analytics & BI: Tableau, Tableau Server, Power BI, Apache Superset, Google Looker Studio, Python (pandas), SQL Analytics

Data Governance: DAMA-DMBOK v2, Great Expectations, RBAC, RLS, ISO Audit & Compliance, SLA Management, Data Lineage, Data Catalog, Change Management

Product & Operations: OKR Framework, Product Roadmap, Agile/Scrum, Jira, Confluence, IT Governance, QA Automation, Release Management

Web Development: Next.js, React, TypeScript, CodeIgniter 4, PHP, MySQL, REST API, Google Maps API, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, Vercel

Mobile & App Dev: Flutter, Dart, Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage), Go (Golang), Swagger/OpenAPI, Google Drive API

AI Pipeline: RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), Vector Database, Text Chunking Strategy, Embedding Pipeline, LLM Integration

Education

Universitas Gunadarma — Bachelor of Industrial Technology (Information & Technology)

2010 – 2014

Certifications

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Fundamentals (DP-900)
Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900)
Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300), 2021–2025

Professional Summary

Key Achievements

Reduced cloud/data-platform cost by ~60% through BigQuery architecture and query optimization (EdenFarm)

Led cross-functional teams of up to 30 members across QA, Data Operations, Product Operations, and Engineering

Scaled a data engineering team from 2 to 5 and reskilled 5 system analysts into data engineers within 3 months

Delivered data & product outcomes across 7 industries: IT Consulting, Fintech, Telco, Oil & Gas, Mining, Healthcare, Agri-tech

Built OT device streaming pipelines (Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Fabric Eventstream) for an oil & gas client, supporting operational reporting and AI use cases

13 years in tech (since 2013), including 7 years in data engineering (since 2019)

Professional Experience

Technical Lead — Stealth Startup · Contract (Oil & Gas Data Platform · NDA)

Jul 2026 – Present

Delivering real-time operational visibility for an oil & gas client by architecting OT device streaming pipelines (Azure IoT Hub, Event Hubs, Fabric Eventstream) into a governed Microsoft Fabric Lakehouse with standardized ETL
Enabling data-driven operations by delivering use-case-based reporting and AI initiatives (Azure AI Foundry, Document Intelligence) on the streaming platform
Closing solution gaps and strengthening team capability by partnering with the PM on solution design and mentoring the junior data team

Head of Product & Data Operations — Koltiva

Jun 2025 – Jun 2026

Delivered faster, more reliable service operations and improved resolution efficiency by 30% by leading a 13+ member cross-functional team across Global Helpdesk, Customer Support, Product Operations, and Data Operations
Accelerated continuous improvement across Product, Development, and Operations by running AI clustering analysis to surface data-driven insights and reduce recurring issues
Reduced escalation resolution time by 40% and strengthened cross-department collaboration by owning the Tier 1/Tier 2 escalation process

Head of IT Governance & Quality Assurance — Koltiva

Aug 2024 – May 2025

Reduced regression testing time by 45% and standardized QA across B2B and B2C product lines by leading 20–30 QA engineers to build an execution-time-based, automation-integrated testing framework
Strengthened audit compliance and master-data integrity by supervising data-quality initiatives and authoring database user-access control SOPs

Data Integrity & System Audit Manager (Project Lead) — Koltiva

Mar 2024 – Jul 2024

Delivered a company-wide ERP alignment roadmap spanning 10+ integrated systems and closed 15+ critical data-integrity gaps by leading a CEO-appointed audit across Product, Technology, and Operations

Head of Technology — EdenFarm

Oct 2023 – Feb 2024

Reduced infrastructure costs by 25% and improved delivery throughput by leading team restructuring and cloud optimization across Product, DevOps, Engineering, IT Operations, and Data Engineering
Accelerated roadmap delivery and improved vendor cost efficiency by 20% by owning quarterly technology planning aligned to business growth targets

Data Engineer Manager — EdenFarm

Jan 2023 – Oct 2023

Reduced cloud costs by ~60% by architecting a BigQuery-based data platform and leading pipeline and query optimization
Delivered a fully productive data team with zero onboarding downtime by scaling engineering from 2 to 5 and reskilling 5 system analysts into data engineers within 3 months
Reduced data-access incidents by 40% and improved BI reliability by establishing data governance policies and data-access SLAs for downstream teams

Freelance Project Collaboration – Lead DE & Senior DE — Healthcare Industry • Mining Industry

Aug 2023 – Early 2024

Delivered production data engineering for a healthcare project (Lead DE) and a mining project (Senior DE) and improved pipeline reliability by 30% across both — as project-based collaborations after hours and on weekends

Team Lead & Tech Lead – Data Engineering & Data Science — XQ Informatics (IT Consulting)

Jul 2019 – Jan 2023

Delivered end-to-end data platforms for 4+ concurrent clients (telco, oil & gas, mining, fintech) and improved delivery speed by 30% by leading cross-functional teams of 10+ engineers as embedded third-party tech lead
Reduced data-processing latency by 50% and enabled real-time analytics by building a mining data platform (Kafka/SCADA → NiFi → Spark → HDFS → Apache Superset) and migrating a lab data warehouse to the Hadoop ecosystem
Earned promotion from Data Engineer & Data Visualization Specialist to Team/Tech Lead within ~6 months by consistently delivering across multiple client engagements

Head of System Development — PT. Transportasi Jakarta (Transjakarta)

Sep 2018 – Jun 2019

Improved software delivery governance and reduced vendor project overruns by 30% by leading development teams and overseeing third-party evaluation, contracts, and executive reporting at Jakarta's public transit authority

Frontend → Full Stack Developer — Dattabot (Digital Tech & Data Consulting)

Aug 2016 – Aug 2018

Built and shipped performant, data-driven web applications across multiple digital product platforms

Web Developer — PT EDI Indonesia (Government Payment Systems · Banking IT)

Apr 2015 – Jun 2016

Delivered reliable government tax payment web modules (eTax, MPN G-2) by developing and integrating them within the banking team

IT Support, Lab Assistant & Freelance Web Developer — Bank (IT Support) · Universitas Gunadarma · Freelance

2013 – 2014

Kept core banking operations stable and reliable as IT Lead Support at a bank, supported lab instruction at Universitas Gunadarma, and delivered freelance web projects during undergraduate studies