About

I build tech and data products, companies, and teams. Mostly with code. Usually successfully.

Details available in my CV .

2023 - 2025 CTO Blackpanda
2020 - 2023 Global VP Data Delivery Hero
2017 - 2020 VP Data Traveloka
2013 - 2017 MD, APAC Neo/Pivotal Labs, APAC

Further back, I headed global technology at Amnesty International , the world’s largest human rights organization, and was Directeur Technique (CIO) of France’s 5th largest private investment bank . I also led the business, operations, and technical turnaround at Neo APAC/Pivotal Labs as Managing Director that led to us becoming a $10M USD per year company and our 2016 acquisition by Dell.

Off work, I’m an avid traveller and involved with conservation and science causes. I study astronomy and physics for personal interest (and future PhD aspirations). I code open source and personal projects in Go, Python, and Ruby. I strive to scribble good tales, well told. And I’m an over-enthusiastic snowboarder, snorkeler, and animal-chasing trekker.

For secure communications, please use my main gpg public key , id 3F20 A015 3E1D 7043. You can import it directly into gpg with curl https://keybase.io/wakatara/pgp_keys.asc?id=3F20A0153E1D7043 | gpg --import.