Imam Susanto
Forward Deployed Engineer
I’m a staff engineer doing forward deployed work: building software, AI features and agentic workflows alongside the brands, agencies and teams who use them. On the web since 2014; based in Indonesia, working remotely across Asia-Pacific.
How I work
- Sit with the people who will use the system before writing code.
- Ship a working version into their environment in days, then iterate on real usage.
- Turn what one customer needed into product changes every customer gets.
- Own the outcome end to end: data, integrations, deployment, and the meeting where it gets adopted.
Of the day
- Prompt: Turn call notes into a scoped ticket
- Skill: Deploy readiness check
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Experience
Titles follow a standard engineering ladder (E3 to E6); my employer’s titles differed.
- Staff Engineer, Forward Deployed, PT C Channel Media Indonesia (2026 – present)
- Staff Engineer, PT C Channel Media Indonesia (2022 – 2026)
- Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead, PT C Channel Media Indonesia (2018 – 2022)
- Software Engineer, Full Stack, PT C Channel Media Indonesia (2016 – 2018)
- Software Engineer, Full Stack, PT Media Makmur (2014 – 2016)
Skills
- Customer work: discovery and scoping, demos and estimates, working on site with users
- Engineering: TypeScript, Node.js, PHP
- AI systems: LLM features in production, agentic workflows and agent skills, AI-assisted development
- Infrastructure: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis
Full CV: what I did in each role, projects, education, and a version for printing.
Contact
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