Justine Winata

Senior Software Engineer · AI Infrastructure · Singapore

Justine Winata

Hi I’m a senior software engineer passionate about applied AI and databases. Happy to talk about what it takes to make AI work in production.

What I’ve been doing

Senior Software Engineer · promoted from Software Engineer
  • Working under CEO-led AI Lab team, selected to drive the company’s Generative AI strategy
  • Scaled Copilot, the first natural-language search product for VMS, to handle 37.5× corpus size with no loss in query relevance by introducing a search engine
Software Engineer
  • Cut manual QA time by 75% with Selenium automation for a Singapore Government administration portal, holding 85% automated coverage
Software Engineer · part-time
  • Built a POS and e-commerce platform processing IDR 200M+ in monthly gross sales, replacing manual reseller purchasing and sales reporting for an antivirus distributor
Software Engineer · part-time
  • Cut report-generation time by 96% on a production-management platform holding 16,000+ records, one of three client applications delivered in six months
Academic Development Officer · Coding Instructor
  • Trained 100+ instructors and taught up to ten classes a semester across databases, backend, data structures and deep learning

Selected engineering work

Cakra Motor HRIS organisation management interface

Cakra Motor HRIS

2024 — 2025

Built a web and React Native HRIS for 100+ employees across 11 locations. Designed a computer-vision attendance flow using face detection, combined with Google Maps location validation.

computer-vision write-up ↗
KIMS sales analytics dashboard

KIMS POS Activation

2023 — 2024

Built an e-commerce and point-of-sale activation platform used to process IDR 200M+ in monthly gross sales. It replaced manual reseller purchasing, gift-card and sales-reporting workflows.

Writing

I write here and on Medium about systems I build and technologies I evaluate.

MongoDB Vector Search: Binary Quantization at 75 Million VectorsMongoDB binary quantization benchmarkClickHouse vs MongoDB: When Milliseconds Become MinutesClickHouse logoMicrosoft Agent Framework v1.0: Is It Worth the Hype?Microsoft Agent FrameworkBuilt an AI That Auto-Creates JIRA Tickets From Production Errors—and WonFirst place at the Red Asia × AWS AI Engineers CompetitionEvent-Driven System: Real-Time Entity Linking With Apache FlinkApache Flink logo

Recognition

5th
National Selection, ASEAN Skills Competition — Web TechnologyMinistry of Manpower, Indonesia · 2022
1st
Web Development Competition — healthcare platform with an ML diabetes detectorTarumanagara University · 2023

Certifications

Publications

Analysis ChatGPT Potential: Transforming Software Development with AI Chat BotsIEEE Xplore

Education

B.Sc. in Computer Science, BINUS University — GPA 3.92/4.00.