Born curious, raised quietly.

I grew up in Bandung, Indonesia — the mountain city that people from Jakarta escape to on long weekends. My childhood was small in the best sense: a single mother who worked hard and never said no to a Math workbook, a bedroom full of Lego, and very few friends. I was the quiet kid who would rather take things apart to see how they worked than talk about them.

I found my people in Math and Physics. Numbers had rules, and rules had answers — that was deeply satisfying for a kid who found most social situations ambiguous. PlayStation was the other anchor: a space where I could lose three hours and re-emerge with something resembling peace. Not much has changed, honestly.

The curiosity about how things worked led me to Electrical Engineering at ITB (Institut Teknologi Bandung). It was the hardest and most rewarding thing I had done up to that point. I came out the other side with a degree, a sharper sense of systems thinking, and a genuine love for software.