Gerald Sihotang
Special capital Region of Jakarta, Indonesia
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Top SchoolGerald Sihotang is a backend-focused software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable applications and smoothing deployment and QA processes across development, staging, and production environments. He has shipped infrastructure and platform work at major Southeast Asian tech companies including Shopee and Sea, bringing practical experience in production reliability at scale. Comfortable learning new technologies quickly, Gerald has moved between full-stack and infrastructure roles, which gives him a pragmatic view of how services, CI/CD, and testing intersect. Based in Jakarta and trained in software engineering at Institut Teknologi Del, he combines startup agility from roles at Pinhome and Transfree with enterprise exposure at PT PLN. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into infrastructure-focused positions to reduce operational friction and accelerate delivery.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science in Software Engineering at Institut Teknologi Del
English, Indonesian
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Github Skills (53)
struct10
faker10
fake-data-generator10
testing-library10
dummy-data10
generator9
golang9
backend8
go8
rest7
clean-architecture7
csv7
taskkill6
boilerplate6
rest-api6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
go-faker/faker
Jan 2023 - May 2026
Go (Golang) Fake Data Generator for Struct, previously https://github.com/bxcodec/faker
Contributions:8 reviews, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 years 5 months
fake-data-generatorgogolangfake-datafaker
geshtng/competitive-programming
May 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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