THE M-SHAPE — Origins
Most people are T-shaped: deep in one domain, broad everywhere else. I aspire to have an M-shaped profile where several domains go deep, and I can synthesise and find connections across them: a jack of all trades but also master of all. ENGINEERING - This is where it all started. Graduated cum laude in Bioprocess (Chemical) Engineering, published a Scopus-indexed paper on hybrid renewable energy systems, and captained my university’s Petrobowl team to the Sweet Sixteen in San Antonio. I don’t work in engineering anymore, but the way it trained me to think never left PRODUCT MANAGEMENT - I joined Traveloka with little PM experience and no one told me I couldn’t do it. Spent 2 years owning international train and airport transfer products across Southeast Asia, balancing what users actually needed with the company’s profitability targets using limited engineering resources CLIMATE & ENERGY POLICY - The thing I care about most. Lead author for Indonesia and Egypt at Climate Action Tracker; co-author of the Corporate Climate Responsibility Monitor; spoke at COP26, CEM-10, ECPR General Conference, Aspen Ideas: Climate, and Indonesia Sustainable Energy Week SUSTAINABLE FINANCE - Banks have a massive role in the climate transition but most of them aren’t doing enough. I wrote my master’s thesis on this, tracked climate finance at CPI for Indonesia’s Ministry of Finance, analyzed corporate sustainability disclosures for OJK via Climateworks Centre, and lead-authored the “impact levers” framework for aligning private finance with the Paris Agreement AI & CLIMATE - I got into this through my husband, who works as an AI workflow architect, and it quickly became something I wanted to understand properly. Attended the Mila Climate Change AI Summer School in 2024, now co-leading NewClimate’s AI working group, and building my own projects using AI-assisted development DESIGN & BUILDING - Building things is one of those skills I picked up from my product management days and never let go of. I like building things from scratch and seeing them come to life. Conceptualized, designed, and shipped independently: sparking.chat, a wedding invitation, a personality quiz, and this website