SRE / Observability / Solutions Architecture

I started building affordable medical devices so more people could access care.

Now I build reliable systems so more people can stay online.

Electrical engineer turned reliability engineer. I help enterprise teams instrument distributed systems, reduce alert noise, improve incident response, and design resilient cloud infrastructure.

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Distributed Trace Waterfall

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latency timeline (ms)

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service
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api-gateway

auth-service

feature-flags

catalog-service

postgres-primary

redis-cache

payment-worker

notification-bus

critical path

checkout request

I can help as

One reliability practice, three ways to bring me in.

For reliability and platform teams

SRE hire

I can own production reliability work across observability, incident response, alert tuning, and SLI/SLO workflows.

On-call signal qualityMTTR reductionSLI/SLO workflows
For teams standardizing telemetry and alerting

Observability Engineer

I can design and implement production observability across New Relic, OpenTelemetry, infrastructure monitoring, dashboards, and alert workflows.

New Relic rolloutOpenTelemetryNRQL dashboards
For cloud, platform, and pre-sales teams

Solutions Architect

I can translate business constraints into resilient cloud, Kubernetes, and observability architectures that survive enterprise network and rollout constraints.

Architecture tradeoffsCloud infrastructureTechnical validation

Why teams bring me in

Spend less time guessing and more time shipping.

I consolidate fragmented telemetry, tune alerting, and build workflows that make incident response faster when the pressure is highest.

The result is less context-switching, fewer blind spots, and observability systems engineers can actually trust in production.

76+

Production systems instrumented across enterprise clients

97%

Technical evaluation score on a Rp 10B infrastructure tender

72h

Email infrastructure rebuild after ransomware attack

20+

Certifications across AWS, GCP, New Relic, and Nutanix

Work

Real systems, real tradeoffs, real outcomes.

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Each case study connects the implementation detail, architecture decision, and operational result behind the work.

Case Study

Full Stack Observability Implementation

Unified fragmented monitoring stacks into one actionable New Relic workflow so incidents move from guesswork to fast, context-rich response.

Role

Observability / SRE implementation lead

Scope

Discovery, instrumentation, dashboard design, alert tuning, and engineer enablement.

Stack

New Relic APM / Infrastructure / OpenTelemetry / NRQL / Alerting

Outcome

Unified fragmented monitoring into one incident response workflow with clearer ownership and faster root cause analysis.

New RelicAPMInfrastructureEnterprise
Case Study

Full Network Observability in Docker

Built a laptop-ready Docker lab that simulates SNMP and syslog traffic, so engineers can learn and validate network observability without physical hardware.

Role

Observability solution builder

Scope

Designed the lab architecture, built traffic simulators, validated telemetry, and documented the workflow.

Stack

Docker / New Relic NPM / SNMP / Syslog / ktranslate

Outcome

Gave engineers a laptop-ready way to validate network observability before touching production hardware.

New Relic NPMDockerSNMPSyslog
Case StudyOpen Source

New Relic Observability Toolkit

Codified production observability into reusable Terraform modules so teams can deploy alerts, dashboards, and notifications consistently from day one.

Role

SRE / Observability-as-code engineer

Scope

Designed reusable Terraform modules, alert policies, dashboard baselines, and notification workflows.

Stack

Terraform / New Relic / NRQL / Synthetics / IaC

Outcome

Converted observability setup into reviewable infrastructure code with production-ready defaults.

TerraformIaCOpen SourceNew Relic
Case StudyOpen Source1 star

New Relic Squid Proxy

Automated New Relic proxy setup across restricted enterprise networks with a one-command installer that removes recurring connectivity blockers.

Role

Solutions Architect / automation engineer

Scope

Mapped connectivity constraints, automated proxy setup, verified endpoints, and packaged the handoff.

Stack

Squid Proxy / Linux / Bash / New Relic / Corporate proxy

Outcome

Turned restricted-network monitoring setup from a recurring blocker into a one-command validation path.

Squid ProxyLinuxAutomationOpen Source
Avecena Basuni

Avecena Basuni

About

A bit about me.

I'm Avecena, an Electrical Engineer from Universitas Indonesia who somehow ended up obsessed with making cloud systems reliable and observable. The transition from debugging microcontrollers to instrumenting distributed systems felt natural. The same instinct that makes you add a serial monitor to an Arduino makes you instrument an API endpoint.

Outside of work I'm lifting at the gym, on the minisoccer or football pitch on weekends, and occasionally getting humbled by Dota 2. I think being a team sport person shapes how I work too. Observability is fundamentally a team problem. It only works if everyone on the team can see what's happening, not just the person who built the dashboard.

Right now I'm open to SRE, Observability Engineer, reliability-focused Solutions Architect, and focused freelance observability work. Jakarta based. Open to remote and relocation.

Writing

I write about what I build. If something took me a while to figure out, I document it.

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Currently Building

Always building something. Here's what's in progress right now.

  • New Relic NPM Showcase

    In Progress

    Docker-based network observability demo, article in progress for Medium.

    DockerSNMPSyslogNew Relic

  • chatbot-nutanix

    In Progress

    RAG chatbot on Nutanix Kubernetes Platform using PostgreSQL/pgvector and Qwen.

    RAGNutanix KubernetespgvectorQwen

  • observability-as-code

    Completed

    Terraform toolkit for production-grade New Relic stack, actively maintained and open source.

    TerraformIaCOpen SourceSRE

Experience

The roles changed.

The instinct to understand how systems behave did not.

PT Berca Hardayaperkasa

Mar 2024 – Present

Technical Product Specialist

End-to-end observability for 76+ enterprise clients across fintech, telecoms, government, and ecommerce — from requirements and architecture through instrumentation, alert tuning, and production validation.

  • Achieved 97% technical evaluation score on a Rp 10B Nutanix Kubernetes Platform tender, outperforming all competing vendors by 7 to 10 percent through end-to-end architecture design and presentation.

  • Deployed New Relic APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, and distributed tracing across production Kubernetes environments, instrumenting microservices with OpenTelemetry for trace-log-metric correlation.

  • Defined SLIs and golden signal alert thresholds that reduced on-call alert noise and improved signal accuracy across multiple client environments.

PT Kairos Utama Indonesia

Apr 2023 – Mar 2024

Junior Systems Engineer

Before specializing in observability, I was the person called when everything broke. I managed 50+ VMs across Microsoft enterprise environments under 24/7 SLA.

  • Led incident response during a ransomware attack on a financial sector client, rebuilding the entire email infrastructure from scratch within 72 hours through cold backup restoration.

  • Executed Disaster Recovery drills and validated RTO and RPO compliance across production environments for enterprise clients.

Covent Indonesia

Apr 2022 – Apr 2023

Embedded Systems Engineer

The same instincts that make good firmware engineers make good SRE engineers: if it can fail silently, it will. At Covent, that meant Watchdog Timers and Fail-Safe mechanisms in safety-critical medical firmware. In SRE, it means instrumentation and alerting before incidents happen.

  • Engineered patented production-grade firmware for a safety-critical medical device in C/C++, implementing Watchdog Timers and Fail-Safe mechanisms.

  • Conducted hardware-level debugging using oscilloscopes and logic analyzers to ensure strict medical device safety compliance.

Laboratorium Elektronika FTUI

Aug 2021 – Jan 2023

Electronics Laboratory Assistant

Made complex embedded systems concepts understandable to the next generation of engineers.

  • Designed practicum modules covering 10 key topics in embedded systems and microcontroller programming.

  • Mentored 50+ undergraduate students per semester in hands-on hardware troubleshooting and lab work.

Certifications

Certifications that reflect where I've spent real time.

Featured credentials below. Open all certifications for the complete list by issuer.

Technical Skills

Tools I reach for in production.

Observability

daily driver across 76+ production engagements

New RelicPrometheusGrafanaOpenTelemetryELK StackDistributed Tracing

Cloud & Infrastructure

deployed in production

AWSGCPAzureTerraformKubernetesDockerNutanix HCI

DevOps & Automation

used in real workflows

GitHub ActionsJenkinsAnsiblePythonBash

Site Reliability

the actual job

SLI/SLO DesignGolden SignalsIncident ResponseObservability as Code

Vault

Things that took me a while to figure out.

Specific debugging notes and hard-won fixes. For the technical audience.

Education

Where it started.

Bachelor of Engineering - Electrical Engineering

Universitas Indonesia

Minor: Electronics Engineering

Relevant coursework: Artificial Intelligence, Control Systems, Microcontroller Programming, Network Communication, Embedded Systems.

Graduated in 3 years 4 months

This is my Bachelor Thesis

Aug 2019 - Jan 2023

GPA 3.87 · Cum Laude

Let's talk

Bring me in when reliability needs an owner.

I'm open to SRE, Observability Engineer, and reliability-focused Solutions Architect roles, plus freelance projects around New Relic, alert tuning, infrastructure review, and Terraform/IaC enablement.
Jakarta based. Open to remote, relocation, roles, projects, and technical due diligence. Start with the reliability problem and I'll tell you where I can help.

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