Host
Meetups, hands-on workshops and learning sessions that make AI approachable.
About
From code to community.
I'm an AI community lead and ecosystem builder. For over 15 years I've turned global technology products into local movements in Indonesia — not just users, but advocates, contributors and long-term community leaders. Today I pair that with hands-on AI practice: vibe coding, AI-assisted product building and grassroots ecosystem growth. Community is infrastructure, not marketing.
The journey.
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2000
Web multimedia designer
AVIGRA Communication Group — early web and multimedia projects for enterprise clients.
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2004
Founded Mozilla Indonesia
Started with a 12-person Firefox 1.0 launch party in Jakarta and grew it into one of Mozilla's strongest global communities — from the KUMI mascot launch attended by Mozilla Chair Mitchell Baker (2010) to Firefox OS App Days Jakarta (2013) and the national-scale Maker Party Surabaya (2013). Along the way, Firefox reached 80%+ desktop share in Indonesia.
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2005
Founded MadebyVK
Building web platforms and digital products — today with AI-assisted, prompt-driven workflows.
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2016
Founded Brave Indonesia
Built a national community from zero through education-first programs, and led Bahasa Indonesia localization for Brave.
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2017
Founded BAT Indonesia
Helped shape the early BAT Ambassador Program and ran national and multi-city community events.
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2025
Events for AI builder tools
Ran community events for Cursor, Vercel v0, Kiro and Creao from early 2025 to May 2026. As a CREAO Ambassador, I also completed 31 Days of Agent — a public challenge where I built and shipped one AI agent every day, 31 in total, throughout May 2026.
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2026
AI community builder
Joined Supabase Supasquad, became Jakarta Chapter Lead of The AI Collective, and started as a MuleRun Ambassador — the program that became QwenWork. In September 2026 I was invited to Apsara Conference in Hangzhou, China, and received my QwenWork Ambassador certificate from QwenWork's CMO.
Recognition
QwenWork Ambassador certificate — Apsara Conference 2026, Hangzhou
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Mozilla Reps Provisional Council — APAC
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Mozilla LEAD — Cohort 1
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Bahasa Indonesia l10n lead — Brave
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Product Hunt — Veteran & Beta Tester ↗
What I do
Teach
Talks and workshops on vibe coding, AI-native tools and building with AI.
Consult
AI community and ecosystem strategy, ambassador programs and localization for Indonesian audiences.
Manifesto
Offline first.
Why I still believe in showing up in person — a series of short essays, in the order I wrote them.
Read the series →
March 19, 2026
Manifesto: Why I Still Believe in Offline — And Who I’m Building For
One dinner with the right 10 people changes a career more than 10,000 impressions on a feed. Why I build offline-first tech communities in I...
March 19, 2026
Everyone’s Building Discord Servers. I’m Not Impressed.
Everyone is rushing to build a Discord server. But how many people from your online community do you actually know by name?
March 21, 2026
The 12-Person Café That Changed Everything
2011. Twelve tech enthusiasts, one small café in Bekasi, and one question: what are you building?
March 22, 2026
The Pattern of Every Community That Dies vs. Every One That Survives
After observing hundreds of tech communities in Indonesia over 15 years, the ones that die and the ones that survive share clear patterns.
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March 26, 2026
200 > 20,000
Unpopular opinion: 200 people who meet offline regularly are worth more than 20,000 Discord members who never interact.