Nurul Gunawan

Overview

I've spent 17 years on application security - first at Telstra, now at Axis Energy. Reduced cloud spend on product security by 26% in two quarters. Mentored 8 engineers through their first promotion. Most at home with AppSec and IAM.

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   May 2026 - Present
   Axis Energy · 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Led the migration of 59 services to cloud security.
   • Shipped 30 launches on the product security team without a rollback.
   • Grew the product security team from 4 to 16 engineers.
2. Engineering Manager

   Apr 2024 - May 2026
   Woolworths Group · 2 yr 1 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 35% in two quarters.
   • Built the experimentation framework 37 product teams use to ship changes safely.
3. Director of Engineering

   Jul 2021 - Apr 2024
   Tokopedia · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Mentored 12 engineers through their first promotion.
   • Wrote the threat modeling service that now handles 32 million requests a day.
4. Senior Engineering Manager

   Feb 2019 - Jul 2021
   EY · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Reduced cloud spend on product security by 29% in two quarters.
   • Mentored 14 engineers through their first promotion.
5. Staff Security Engineer

   Jun 2017 - Feb 2019
   Telstra · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Singapore
   • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 42 minutes to under 2.

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Education

1. Peking University

   BSc, Computer Engineering
   2004 - 2008