Kevin Anugerah Faza AI/ML Engineer · Surabaya, Indonesia

Building AI systems end to end, from models to the infrastructure that runs them.

ITS — Information Technology

WIB

What drives me

Principles that shape how I approach engineering, research, leadership, and responsibility.

Build for usefulness, then optimize for intelligence.

Technology creates value when it solves a real problem reliably.

Research creates possibilities, engineering turns them into systems and solutions.

Ideas become meaningful when they can operate beyond experiments and notebooks.

Hasta El Final.

Take responsibility for the outcome, keep moving through every setback, and see every commitment through to the end.

Selected work

Public — TeamAI Engineering / Backend Development / Full-Stack Application

19MJ AI Career Development & Hiring Platform

An AI-powered career and recruitment platform for candidates and companies — CV review, career planning, interview workflows, job applications, recruitment management and AI-assisted candidate evaluation in one system.

Technologies: React.js / Vite / Node.js / Express.js / PostgreSQL / FastAPI / Faster-Whisper / Google AI Studio / OpenRouter

GitHub repository ↗

Public — TeamData Engineering / Machine Learning Infrastructure

Real-Time Big Data Lakehouse Platform

A containerized, end-to-end data platform: real-time event ingestion, streaming transformation, medallion data layers, automated model training, experiment tracking, model registration and API-based inference.

Technologies: Apache Kafka / Apache Spark / PySpark / MinIO / MLflow / PostgreSQL / FastAPI / JupyterLab / Docker / Docker Compose

GitHub repository ↗

CompetitionMachine Learning / Tabular Regression

Material Property Prediction

A tabular machine-learning solution for an international material-property prediction challenge, built on a piecewise Gaussian Process Regression approach.

1st Place Winner — Final leaderboard score 0.13689

Technologies: Python / Pandas / NumPy / Scikit-learn / Gaussian Process Regression

Kaggle competition ↗

NDA — ProfessionalAI Engineering / Retrieval-Augmented Generation / Full-Stack Development

Hybrid RAG Knowledge Assistant

An internal knowledge assistant that retrieves from document collections and generates grounded answers — hybrid retrieval, reranking and locally managed language-model inference.

Technologies: Python / FastAPI / Next.js / PostgreSQL / Vector retrieval / BM25 keyword retrieval / Reranking / Local LLM inference

86.67% context recall — 78.89% context precision

Confidential professional work — details kept general.

NDA — ProfessionalAI Engineering / Text-to-SQL / Business Intelligence

Executive Data Assistant

A conversational data assistant that turns Bahasa Indonesia business questions into read-only SQL queries and returns structured insights through a Telegram interface.

Technologies: Python / ClickHouse / Local LLM runtime / Telegram Bot API / FastAPI / SQL / YAML

100% query execution success on hard-level test cases

Confidential professional work — details kept general.

Experience

  1. AI Top Trends

    AI Developer Intern

    AI Top Trends

    Aug 2026 – Present
    • Built an evidence-driven AI news intelligence pipeline: source ingestion, deduplication, story clustering, claim/evidence validation, provenance tracking and validation status gates.
    • Generated validated Bahasa Indonesia daily summaries and evidence-grounded Markdown articles with idempotent retries and partial-failure handling — 129 passing tests and 38/38 successful live source connections.
  2. Cyber Security and Smart City Laboratory

    Vice Head

    Cyber Security and Smart City Laboratory

    Jan 2026 – Present
    • Lead Data Science and AI research initiatives in smart-city and cybersecurity contexts.
    • Designed and deployed a RAG-based laboratory chatbot for internal knowledge access.
    • Implemented model auto-routing to improve accuracy, efficiency and response quality across query types.
  3. Avalon AI

    Machine Learning Engineer

    Avalon AI

    Feb 2024 – Present
    • Research on Gradient Boosting Tree algorithms, language-model architectures and Retrieval-Augmented Generation methods.
    • Explore model optimization, domain-specific retrieval and practical AI implementation.
    • Authored work on SahabatAI-based RAG for legal contexts using Indonesian open-source language models.
    • Take part in weekly ML Tweaks sessions on experiment evaluation, model improvement and machine learning coding practices.
  4. PT PAL Indonesia

    AI Engineer Intern

    PT PAL Indonesia

    Dec 2025 – Feb 2026
    • Developed NDA-protected internal AI systems for document knowledge access and conversational business intelligence.
    • Worked across AI engineering, backend APIs, local model integration, retrieval, database access, validation, testing and user-facing workflows.
  5. Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

    Assistant Lecturer

    Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

    Aug 2024 – Jul 2026
    Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

    Practicum from preprocessing to generative AI; mentored students building models across tabular, text, image and multimodal tasks.

    Data Communications & Computer Network

    Subnetting, routing, firewalls and IPTables; topology troubleshooting in Cisco Packet Tracer and GNS3.

    Database Systems

    ERD design, normalization, MySQL DDL/DML, triggers, stored procedures and MongoDB.

    Algorithms & Programming Techniques

    C practicum covering recursion, pointers, structs, sorting and searching.

Achievements

1st Place Winner — International Kaggle Competition

Spring 2025 Regression Challenge

A piecewise Gaussian Process Regression pipeline for material-property prediction on tabular data — exploratory data analysis, preprocessing, validation and model optimization.

Machine Learning / Tabular Regression

Final leaderboard score
0.13689

3rd Place — International category

FIT Competition, Data Science

Organized by Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana. Two solutions across different data modalities: a flood segmentation model on image data and a crop recommendation model on tabular data.

Computer Vision / Tabular Machine Learning

Flood segmentation — IoU
0.8771
Crop recommendation — accuracy
99.70%

Leadership

Oct 2025 — Present

Google Developer Groups on Campus ITS

Google Developer Groups on Campus ITS

Lead Chapter — Surabaya, Indonesia

  • 29Core Team staff led
  • 800+Community members
  • Overseeing AI, Cyber Security, Cloud Development and Web Development tracks.
  • Plan and execute technical programs, workshops and project-based learning activities.
  • Contributed to a Top 3 national registration result among GDGoC Indonesia chapters for #JuaraVibeCoding.

Aug 2025 — Mar 2026

A Renewal Agent 7.0 ITS

A Renewal Agent 7.0 ITS

Project Officer — Surabaya, Indonesia

  • 13Cross-functional divisions
  • 170+Committee members
  • +60%Competition registrations (average)
  • >100%Event finance growth
  • 3xSocial media performance
  • Held the highest executive role of the committee.
  • Directed Roadshow, IT Olympiad, Capture the Flag, Data Science Competition and the ExploIT IT Expo.
  • Established a national Data Science Competition as a new flagship event with the highest participant count across the event portfolio.

Jan 2025 — Jan 2026

Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknologi Informasi ITS

Himpunan Mahasiswa Teknologi Informasi ITS

Research and Technology Staff — Surabaya, Indonesia

  • Staff of the YearAward for contribution and consistency
  • Coordinated AI Club learning sessions and peer mentoring in machine learning, deep learning and generative AI.
  • Person in Charge for LKMM-TD HMIT ITS in collaboration with BEM ITS.

Expertise

Focus areas

  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation
  • Large Language Models
  • Agentic AI
  • LLM Evaluation
  • Machine Learning
  • MLOps
  • Data Engineering
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Deep Learning
  • Generative AI
  • LLM Fine-tuning

Toolkit

Programming languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • HTML / CSS
  • C / C++
  • Bash

AI frameworks and tools

  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • PyTorch
  • Scikit-learn
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • Hugging Face Hub
  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • LangSmith
  • LlamaIndex
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • OpenAI API
  • Gemini API
  • Ollama
  • vLLM
  • LM Studio
  • RAGAS
  • Unsloth

Backend and APIs

  • FastAPI
  • Node.js
  • Express.js
  • REST APIs
  • Telegram Bot API
  • Celery
  • Redis
  • Prefect
  • Uvicorn
  • HTTPX
  • Feedparser
  • Trafilatura

Frontend

  • Next.js
  • React.js
  • Tailwind CSS
  • Vite
  • Streamlit
  • Gradio
  • REST API integration

Data and databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • MariaDB
  • ClickHouse
  • MySQL
  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Spark
  • PySpark
  • Apache Airflow
  • Apache Hadoop
  • BigQuery
  • MinIO

Vector databases

  • pgvector
  • Chroma
  • FAISS
  • Pinecone

Systems and infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Git
  • GitHub Actions
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux / WSL
  • MLflow
  • YAML

Cloud and deployment platforms

  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Amazon Web Services
  • DigitalOcean
  • Vercel
  • Netlify

Languages

  • Indonesian · Native
  • English · Intermediate

Education & credentials

Education

Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember

Bachelor of Computer Science — Information Technology

Surabaya, Indonesia

Period
2023–2027
Expected
GPA
3.80 / 4.00

Certifications

Certifications
CertificationIssuerIssuedCredential IDVerification
Data Scientist AssociateDataCampAug 30, 2026DSA0017768401056Verify Credential ↗
AI Engineer for Developers AssociateDataCampAug 29, 2026AIEDA0014229899665Verify Credential ↗
AI Engineer for Data Scientists AssociateDataCampAug 29, 2026AEDS0010886080053Verify Credential ↗
Data Engineer AssociateDataCampAug 29, 2026DEA0011967326731Verify Credential ↗
Python Fundamental for Data ScienceDQLabJul 29, 2025DQLABINTP1BNCAQLVerify Credential ↗
Panduan LLM untuk Developer: Dasar hingga Aplikasi PraktisUdemyJul 2025UC-099b0445-17ab-4b3e-a66d-b3913b52e35fVerify Credential ↗

Contact

Let's build something useful.

Usefulness first, intelligence second. If you have a real problem worth solving reliably, write to me.

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Email kevinanugerahf@gmail.com