I build theunglamorous half.

I am an Information Systems student at Universitas Kristen Duta Wacana in Yogyakarta, in my seventh semester, writing my thesis on Sowan.id. I did not choose the programme out of passion — I chose it out of necessity, and then found something in it worth being stubborn about.

The pattern in my work was not planned. It showed up on its own. A marketplace where elderly people are the paid experts. A bulletin system for church volunteers who were coordinating a ministry through group chats. A decision game for high-school students on school wifi that does not work. A VR beach for people who cannot make the trip. In every one of them, the interesting problem was not the feature list — it was whether the person at the other end could actually operate the thing.

That makes accessibility and data safety the parts I care about most, and the parts I can actually show evidence for. When I redesigned the church system, I measured the contrast of every text element in production instead of claiming it was accessible. When I audited my own workshop game, I found that I had left participant data readable by anyone holding a public key — and the honest version of that story is on this site, because leaving it out would make the rest of it less believable.

This summer I chaired a 59-student international service programme with Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which is mostly an exercise in the thing nobody teaches: getting a large group of tired people to the right room at the right time. The same year I presented in competition finals more than once, mostly online and in English — a track win at the Mantle Turing Test Hackathon, 2nd place at the BMC #12 international final, 1st at a national business plan competition.