Agus Ahmad Salleh

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Principal Engineer at Westpac · Payments infrastructure

Westpac
Jakarta, Indonesia · WIB (UTC+7)
13+ years experience
Chulalongkorn University
English, Bahasa Indonesia
Open to work
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Overview

I've spent 22 years on payments infrastructure - first at Accenture, now at Westpac. Designed the reconciliation system that matches 2 million transactions a day. Before that: Singtel and Commonwealth Bank. Most at home with Go and Java. Former debater; now I argue with spreadsheets.

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Skills
distributed systemsGoPostgreSQLJava
Open to workLooking for a role
closes in 3 months

Next role: Backend Engineer in supply chain, Jakarta or hybrid

Target roles
Backend Engineer
Level
Senior
Industries
Fintech, E-commerce
Work mode
On-site
Available
60 days notice
Work authorization
Authorized to work in Indonesia
What I'm looking for
Hands-on work on distributed systems with room to mentor.
Not interested in
Night shifts

22 years in payments infrastructure. Strongest at Go and distributed systems. Can start in about six weeks.

Jakarta, Indonesia · remote OKpostgresqldistributed systemsgo
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Experience

  1. Principal Engineer
    Mar 2023 - Present
    Westpac · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Led or co-led 37 investments, 8 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Sit on 7 boards.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Oct 2020 - Mar 2023
    Singtel · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 43% in two quarters.
  3. Senior Engineering Manager
    Dec 2018 - Oct 2020
    Commonwealth Bank · 1 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Cut p99 latency on the payments platform services from 456ms to 130ms.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Jul 2016 - Dec 2018
    Naver · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Reduced cloud spend on payments platform by 23% in two quarters.
  5. Senior Backend Engineer
    Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
    Accenture · 2 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Jakarta, Indonesia
    • Moved 82% of payments platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.

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Education

  1. Chulalongkorn University
    BEng, Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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