Imam Susanto
Forward Deployed Engineer
Indonesia, working remotely across Asia-Pacific · hello@imsus.dev · imsus.dev · github.com/imsus · linkedin.com/in/imsus
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Summary
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.
Experience
Titles follow a standard engineering ladder (E3 to E6); my employer’s titles differed.
Staff Engineer, Forward Deployed
PT C Channel Media Indonesia · Apr 2026 – present
Works directly with the brands and agencies on Lemon Influencer, with internal teams, and with external clients on their own systems.
- Scope the needs of brands, agencies and external clients.
- Integrate their systems.
- Put AI and agentic workflows into internal teams’ daily work.
Staff Engineer
PT C Channel Media Indonesia · Apr 2022 – Mar 2026
Set how the engineering org builds with AI, while staying tech lead of Lemon Influencer.
- Set AI tooling, practices and code reviews for an engineering org of under ten engineers.
- Brought agentic workflows into the org from 2025.
- Stayed tech lead of Lemon Influencer and shipped AI features in it.
Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead
PT C Channel Media Indonesia · Apr 2018 – Mar 2022
Tech lead for Lemon Influencer, an influencer marketing platform, from first build to launch.
- Led a team of up to five engineers building it from scratch, to its web launch in Indonesia in 2019.
- Followed with a PWA (Quasar) and a mobile app (React Native) in 2021.
- The platform has grown to 70,000 registered creators (5,000 active) and 6,000 registered brands (200 active).
Software Engineer, Full Stack
PT C Channel Media Indonesia · Apr 2016 – Mar 2018
Kept building Kawaii Beauty Japan and its client campaigns, renamed C Challenge, full stack after C Channel acquired it.
Software Engineer, Full Stack
PT Media Makmur · Apr 2014 – Mar 2016
Built Kawaii Beauty Japan, a Japanese beauty and lifestyle site for Indonesian readers, its Present Campaign microsites for client brands, and client websites.
- Joined on the front end and took over the back end in July 2014, when the sole backend developer resigned.
Projects
imsus.dev
Author · 2026 – present · imsus.dev
This site: Astro on Cloudflare Workers, with AI agent prompts and installable agent skills.
Lemon Influencer
Tech lead · 2018 – present · lemon.co.id
Influencer marketing platform for brands and creators, on web, PWA and mobile.
Kawaii Beauty Japan
Full-stack engineer · 2014 – 2019 · kawaiibeautyjapan.com (archived)
Japanese beauty and lifestyle media for Indonesian readers; in maintenance until 2026.
C Challenge (formerly Present Campaign)
Full-stack engineer · 2014 – 2018
Campaign microsites for client brands: giveaways, blog competitions, raffles and surveys. Renamed from Present Campaign after the 2016 acquisition.
- Built 10 to 30 campaigns.
Client business websites
Full-stack engineer · 2014 – 2016
Websites for Tokyo Belle Indonesia and De-Hair (a rebuild), since handed over to the clients.
Skills
- Customer work: discovery and scoping, demos and estimates, working on site with users, client projects
- Engineering: TypeScript, Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Vue with Quasar, React Native, PWAs, integrations with customer systems
- AI systems: LLM features in production, agentic workflows and agent skills, AI-assisted development, rolling AI tooling out to teams
- Infrastructure: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis, AWS, Docker, deploying PHP and TypeScript services
Education
- Bachelor of Economics (S.E.), Business Management, Universitas Bakrie · 2008 – 2012
Languages
Indonesian (native), English (professional working proficiency)
Interests
Software optimisation with coding agents