Vriza Wahyu Saputra
Lecturer & Software Engineer
Change the world with technology
A full-time Lecturer with a strong background in Software Engineering and more than 5 years of professional experience in the tech industry. Passionate about teaching, curriculum development, and research, with a focus on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Actively involved in academic publications with 5 international conference and journal papers, and consistently exploring innovative ways to apply research into practical solutions. Committed to inspiring students, enhancing digital literacy, and contributing to the advancement of technology and education.
Experience
- Lecturer — UIN Sayyid Ali Rahmatullah TulungagungJune 2025 – Present
Full-time lecturer teaching the Data Science course.
- Design course syllabi and teaching materials
- Deliver lectures and guide students in projects
- Prepare and evaluate assignments and exams
- Encourage students to apply data science methods to real-world problems
- Lecturer — Universitas Surabaya (Ubaya)July 2024 – February 2025
Lecturer for the Hybrid Mobile Programming course.
- Develop teaching materials and deliver lectures
- Prepare quiz questions and evaluate student projects
- Supervise and examine students
- Organize and facilitate laboratory-based education
- Backend Engineer — Finetiks (PT Uang Pintar Indonesia)June 2023 – February 2025
Built personal financial management apps, focused on best practices and quality across the stack, in close communication with QA and Product teams.
- Build backend services with Golang, Redis, Pub/Sub, and PostgreSQL
- Focus on best practices and quality across all technology
- Collaborate closely with QA and Product teams
- Backend Engineer — JULO Teknologi FinansialFebruary 2022 – February 2023
Developed financial technology on the backend, primarily in Python — developing, testing, debugging and troubleshooting.
- Create REST APIs using Django with PostgreSQL
- Build scheduling flows using Celery Beat
- Build asynchronous processing using RabbitMQ
- Lecturer Assistant — Engineering Informatics Lab, ITSFebruary 2022 – June 2022
Taught master's students in Computational Intelligence and Matriculation — Data Structure.
- Teach master's students using Python and libraries such as pandas, numpy, keras and pytorch
- Fullstack Engineer — Clade Ventures Pty. LtdJanuary 2020 – May 2022
Australian IT services and consulting company; worked as a fullstack engineer across several clients.
- Built a learning management system for BRI employees throughout Indonesia (web and mobile)
- Built a Digital Service Orchestrator for Wehelpyou with partners such as Gojek, Grab and Lalamove
- Research Assistant — Computer Vision Research Group, Brawijaya UniversityMay 2019 – December 2019
Assisted lecturers with AI research, especially on food image data in hospitals.
- Research on artificial intelligence using Python with Numpy, Pandas, Tensorflow and Keras
- Frontend Engineer — PT Bejana Investidata GlobalindoMay 2019 – December 2019
IT consulting firm serving several clients; worked as a frontend engineer.
- Built websites using CodeIgniter and React JS
- Built mobile apps using Flutter
- Sliced UI using Bootstrap, Material UI and Chart JS
- Integrated APIs using Axios
Education
- Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology (ITS)Aug 2021 – Sept 2023
Master's Degree — Engineering Informatics
Faculty of Intelligent Electrical and Informatics Technology (FTEIC) · GPA 3.88/4.00
- Brawijaya University (UB)Aug 2015 – April 2019
Bachelor's Degree — Engineering Informatics
Faculty of Computer Science · GPA 3.60/4.00
Skills
Technologies
Publications
- Fog and Rain Augmentation in License Plate Recognition under Tropical Country Environment
IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) — Journal, Scopus Q2
- A Systematic Literature Review of Student Assessment Framework in Software Engineering Courses
Journal of Information System Engineering and Business Intelligence (JISEBI) — Journal
- Low Light Image Enhancement in License Plate Recognition using URetinex-Net and TRBA
7th Information Systems International Conference (ISICO) 2023 — Conference, Scopus Q2
- An Efficient Load Balancing Using Genetic Algorithm in Cloud Computing
11th Electrical Power, Electronics, Communications, Controls and Informatics Seminar (EECCIS) — Conference
- Comparison of Image Thresholding and Clustering Segmentation Methods for Understanding Nutritional Content of Food Images
5th International Conference on Sustainable Information Engineering and Technology (SIET '20) — Conference
Achievements
- Semi-finalist, Bank Indonesia FEKDI Hackathon 2024
- Volunteer Teacher, Kelas Inspirasi Kediri & Malang 2024
- Presenter, 7th Information Systems International Conference (ISICO) 2023
- Presenter, 11th EECCIS Seminar
- Speaker at ITTS (Institut Teknologi Telkom Surabaya): "From Concept to Reality: Implementing YouTube Features with React JS"
- Artajasa Scholarship Awardee 2017
Certifications & Training
- TOEFL — Score 513 (2024)
- Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer — Udemy (2022)
- AWS Academy Cloud Foundations — AWS Academy Graduate (2022)
- SOLID Programming Principles — Dicoding (2022)
- Landing AI Developer Learning Series 1 — Alibaba Cloud (2021)
- Getting Started with Python — Dicoding (2021)
- Machine Learning for Beginners — Dicoding (2021)
- Cloud Practitioner Essentials — Dicoding (2021)
- Data Visualization Fundamentals — Dicoding (2021)
Links
Writing
- Juggling Counting using YOLOv810 min read
LinkedIn
Learn how to build juggling counting using the cutting-edge technology called YOLOv8. In this article you will learn how to use a dynamic line with a deep learning network.
Medium
Learning from scratch about Artificial Intelligence (AI) with easy language.
- Back to Basic (B2B) — Metode K-Nearest Neighbors (K-NN)Februari 08, 2024
Medium
Medium
- The development of AI in IndonesiaOctober 30, 2023
Medium