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Making Infra Boring, So Developers Can Be Brilliant


Hola, it’s me Owen πŸ‘‹
I’m just someone who enjoys building things, breaking them (in dev only, I promise), and learning along the way. This blog is a space for thoughts, stories, experiments, and everything in between β€” mostly tech, sometimes life. Welcome aboard!

My Journey

My journey into tech didn’t start with a line of code β€” it started with curiosity.

It all started in high school, when I realized I really enjoyed solving problems β€” especially through math. I loved the structure, the logic, and the satisfaction of reaching a clear result. That passion naturally led me to pursue Computer Science at BINUS University, where I hoped to explore how logic could be applied to technology.

At first, I was drawn to building websites. I enjoyed designing simple UIs, seeing something visual come to life from lines of code. I spent a lot of time tinkering with layouts and exploring how front-end technologies worked.

But everything changed during my internship as a DevOps Engineer. That was the moment when my world opened up to the deeper layer of tech β€” the infrastructure that powers everything beneath the surface. I learned not just the theory, but the practical, hands-on side of infrastructure: automation, pipelines, container orchestration, monitoring, and cloud architecture.

After the internship, I moved on as an Infrastructure Engineer on a contract basis, where I was trusted to set up multi-cloud integrations, work on disaster recovery from Alicloud to GCP, and automate reporting pipelines using Kafka, BigQuery, and Python. It was a hands-on, fast-paced role that pushed me to learn even more.

That experience shifted my focus. I started to enjoy the behind-the-scenes work more β€” the part where systems are built to scale, where deployments happen with a click, and where teams are empowered through good tooling and reliable platforms.

Now, as a Platform Engineer, I focus on building internal tools, developer platforms, and architectures that simplify complexity. Outside of work, I also contribute to ruangdeploy, a community where I share knowledge around infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering β€” from practical lessons I’ve learned to the tools I work with every day.

From a curious high school student to a platform engineer working on real-world systems, this journey has been built on learning, iteration, and the excitement of making complex things feel simple.