Derianto Kusuma

Founder of Sembly

Founder
2019 - Current
The web is supposed to bring out the best in us: limitless insights, productive collaboration, collective problem solving and sense making. Yet on existing consumer platforms, discussions are dominated by a deluge of noise that is loud but not substantive, viral but not constructive. People are dragged into popularity contests instead of collaboration. Trust is gradually eroded, and it’s easy to feel we’re all wasting our time online. The web doesn’t have to be this way, and we believe that we can design a place on the web where open, large-scale collaboration for productive discourse and knowledge building is possible – Sembly.com

Co-founder & CTO
2012 - 2018
Building world-class engineering and data teams in Southeast Asia tackling large-scale complex problems, in an environment of continuous learning, deep thinking, and fearless innovation. Building the original Traveloka product and tech architecture, technical and organizational infrastructure, the original company value and culture, from zero in 2012 to a distributed, around 400-person organization across Jakarta, Singapore, and Bangalore. I'm no longer involved in the company since the end of 2018, and I do not endorse or have anything to do with its current corporate structure, culture, and practices.

Senior Software Engineer
2011 - 2012
Redesigned and implemented LinkedIn web scraping pipeline and optimized its performance. Created algorithms for domain-agnostic HTML article text extraction and position-based irrelevant image culling. In a 2-person team, evolved subsystems to handle rapid increase in load during LinkedIn Today's growth period. (Joined pre-IPO)

Software Development Engineer in Test
2010 - 2011
Developed verification frameworks for HTTP channel stack in .NET WCF, improved .NET test framework, developed data mining tools. I worked with a co-author of HTTP Protocol, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen (an Architect in the team then), on ensuring that the sync & async paths of HTTP channels implementation in .NET 4.0 are free from resource leaks and race conditions.

Total Funding: $2M