B.A.Sc. in Information Systems

Our curriculum ran on what everyone called the Packet System. No electives, no shortcuts, just a fixed slate of subjects you marched through together, from programming logic to Supply Chain Management to Enterprise Architecture. I came in as a complete beginner, who genuinely questioned why a boolean type even needed to exist, and I left as a Cum Laude graduate who could actually architect a system end to end.

I stepped into Technopreneurship through business planning competitions, environments where teams pitch viable product ideas and defend them in front of panels of judges and mentors. The best of our entries grew far beyond a slide deck.

One of those was Massbeat, born during the transition of the COVID-19 pandemic. My team and I identified a critical need, a platform to bridge the gap between home workouts and professional trainer consultations.

• We developed a comprehensive business plan and high-fidelity mockups to validate the user journey.

• The product's potential was recognized by the 1000 Startup Digital program, where we were selected for incubation.

• We refined the product through the fires of competition, securing 1st Runner Up at GenBI Riau and 2nd Runner Up at LIKMI #2 and PIKMI at 2023.

We had planned to build the full app. But the realities each of us was carrying outside Massbeat made it impossible to keep going at the pace it needed, so together we chose to sunset it. It's still a bit sad that the project couldn't keep going, but the journey itself gave me more than I expected, real experience in shaping a business idea, defending it under pressure, and learning what it actually takes to turn something on a slide into something real.

We closes out semester with a group project of some kind, a way of forcing the subjects we'd just learned to confront each other in one running application. The format shifts each semester. The semester I'm thinking of happened to run as a capstone, and that was the one where my team took home the Best Capstone Project Group award.

The challenge required drafting a product requirement document to orchestrate the integration of three distinct subjects into a unified application:

• Framework Programming - Built a robust web app using React and Express.

• Supply Chain Systems - Implemented complex logic for inventory flow and logistics.

• Data Visualization - Created dashboards for business insights using Looker Studio.

My third year landed me a spot in MSIB Batch 6, a national internship program that's tough to get into, and through it I took a Front End Developer role at the Ministry of Finance in Jakarta.

It was my first time inside a proper engineering team. I sat with actual stakeholders, listened to how they ran their day, and helped build a web-based room management system for the ministry's units. That stretch is where the theory I'd been studying for years finally collided with the messier reality of deadlines, standards, and people who depend on what you ship.

In my final year, a lecturer pulled me into co-developing a real product for a client, which a hotel management system. I took the fullstack role on the front desk module, working in Laravel, React, and Inertia.js.

The whole academic side rode along with the build, proposal defense at the start, testing through development, and a final result presentation at the end. Doing both at once meant the thesis stopped feeling like a separate paper to write and started feeling like the same job, just documented.

By the time the curriculum was done with me, I'd been dragged across most of the software lifecycle and picked up a working grip on each layer.

I finished in October 2025 with 128 Activity Points, well past the 75 the campus required, mostly because I'd been chasing competitions and side projects instead of just clocking class hours.

Beyond the metrics and awards, these four years gifted me an invaluable network of brilliant peers and mentors. I left the campus not just with a degree, but with deep friendships and the technical resilience that will define the rest of my professional journey.