Deby Candrakirana
Tech Lead · Data Engineering · Microsoft Fabric & Azure · Analytics · Product & Data Operations
Jakarta, Indonesia (open to relocation) · debycandrakirana@gmail.com · +62 817 343 935
linkedin.com/in/debycandrakirana · github.com/debycandra · debycandrakirana.com
Professional Summary
Data and product professional with 12+ years in tech (since 2013), including 6+ 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 project-based Tech Lead on a confidential Microsoft Fabric real-time data platform (Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Eventstream, Lakehouse); previously Head of Product & Data Operations at Koltiva. Open to senior full-time roles, international relocation, and strategic consulting engagements.
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
- 12+ years in tech (since 2013), including 6+ years in data engineering (since 2019)
Professional Experience
Tech Lead — Confidential Client (Microsoft Fabric Data Platform · NDA)
Jul 2026 – Present- Leading delivery of a confidential Microsoft Fabric real-time data platform as Tech Lead — architecting streaming ingestion (Azure Event Hubs, IoT Hub, Fabric Eventstream) into a governed Lakehouse with standardized ETL (project-based; client under NDA)
- Established Lakehouse and ETL project standards and piloted Azure AI Foundry and Document Intelligence for early AI and document-processing use cases
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 and reduced recurring issues by 25% by running AI clustering analysis to surface data-driven insights
- 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
- Improved audit compliance and master-data integrity by 30% 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 data-driven web applications across multiple digital product platforms and improved front-end performance and delivery speed by 25%
Web Developer — PT EDI Indonesia (Government Payment Systems · Banking IT)
Apr 2015 – Jun 2016- Delivered government tax payment web modules (eTax, MPN G-2) and improved transaction processing reliability by 20% by developing and integrating them within the banking team
IT Support, Lab Assistant & Freelance Web Developer — Bank (IT Support) · Universitas Gunadarma · Freelance
2013 – 2014- Sustained core banking operations at 99.9% uptime 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, 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 – 2014Certifications
- 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