Full-time CEO at Pranala Digital Transmaritim. Programmer by habit, which is the older of the two.
Surabaya, Indonesia · [email protected]
We build software for ships. I write code; the people who actually understand cargo holds and ship stability sit on the same team, and that is the only reason any of it works.
I have been at it since 2007, back when I was studying informatics at ITS Surabaya. I never quite got round to doing anything else.
After hours I am still a programmer. Small apps nobody asked for, single-board computers, microcontrollers poked at with MicroPython. Right now I am trying to learn electronics properly, rather than wiring things together until they happen to work.
I distro-hop far more than is reasonable. One daughter, thoroughly unimpressed by all of the above. And Manchester United, which some seasons is less a hobby than a test of character.
Our main product. Loading software for most things that float: bulk carriers, container and general cargo, tankers, ferry and ro-ro, project cargo, barges. There is a FastLoad version for terminal work and draught surveys, and a cargo handling simulator that maritime schools teach with. It grew out of case-based reasoning research at ITS, funded by RISTEK.
Planned maintenance for fleets, built offline-first because ships spend a lot of their life with no signal at all. Crew fill in noon reports and damage reports whenever they like, and it sorts the syncing out on its own once a connection turns up. App on board, dashboard back at the office.
Reads WhatsApp backup files. Tiny thing, scratched an itch, still use it.