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Neurotechnology Research Engineer specializing in closed-loop BCI systems for motor recovery. I combine deep electrophysiology expertise (PhD Biorobotics, MSc Imperial College) with 9+ years of industry software and QA engineering. I engineer neuroscience pipelines for clinical-grade usage — bridging rapid prototypes, clinical systems, and strict engineering standards (clean code, CI/CD, optimization).

On the other side, always happy to connect and discuss a wide range of topics—not just neurotechnology and software engineering, but also AI, business analysis, scaling startups, and low-level systems.

Work Experience

PhD Researcher in Biorobotics (Marie Curie Scholar) ReWIRE – Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna Sep 2023 – Present

Pisa, Italy | EU-funded Doctoral Network project on implantable neuroprostheses to restore hand functions after spinal cord injury (SCI).

• Engineered real-time intracortical decoding algorithms to simultaneously decode arm and hand kinematics, pushing towards high-dimensional motor control restoration in tetraplegia patients.
• Co-authored clinical BCI pipeline with Prof. Silvestro Micera (EPFL/SSSA), contributing to a preprint demonstrating single-finger movement restoration via targeted nerve stimulation.
• Designed automated Python data pipelines to clean, process, and extract statistical features from multi-area, high-density electrophysiological (ExG) recordings.

Lecturer in Electrical Engineering EEPIS (Electronics Engineering Polytechnic Institute of Surabaya) May 2022 – Jan 2024

Surabaya, Indonesia | Full-time researcher and lecturer in the Biosignal and Medical Imaging group.

• Led research on biosignal processing and machine learning for neurorehabilitation control systems (bionic prosthetics).

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Labster / Liv.it Mar 2021 – Sep 2023

Remote | Labster is a Denmark-based EdTech platform used by 700+ universities globally. Liv.it is an Indonesian PropTech startup.

• Architected and owned end-to-end (E2E) testing frameworks across both platforms, reducing critical production bugs by enforcing automated regression pipelines using Cypress and Katalon.
• Built and managed CI/CD pipelines on top of Git to automate software validation, enabling zero-downtime deployments across continuous release cycles.

Head of Product & Tech Advisor Surplus Indonesia Jun 2022 – Feb 2023