Senior AI Developer · ESSA Industries Indonesia

Rahmat Fajri

Senior AI/ML engineer with 5+ years turning machine learning and generative AI into measurable business results across energy, property, and manufacturing: cutting operating costs by >30%, eliminating unscheduled plant shutdowns, and compressing week-long financial processes into minutes. I build AI practices from zero, from strategy to production-grade multi-agent systems, agentic RAG, vLLM serving, and MLOps.

Credentials

Certifications in AI & machine learning development and deployment.

  • TensorFlow Developer Certificate · TensorFlow
  • Machine Learning DevOps Engineer Nanodegree · Udacity
  • TensorFlow: Data and Deployment Specialization · Coursera
  • Bangkit 2021, Machine Learning Specialization · Google, GoTo & Traveloka

Experience

Turning machine learning and generative AI into measurable business results

  1. Jul 2026 – Present
    Current Role

    Senior AI Developer

    PT ESSA Industries Indonesia Tbk · first AI hire in the company

    • Spearheaded ESSA's AI adoption as the company's first AI hire, establishing an AI Development Framework that gives the company a repeatable path to build and deliver AI solutions successfully.
    • Designed the company-wide AI implementation roadmap with clearly gated phases from PoC to production, aligning every AI initiative with business priorities.
    • Authored technical guidelines that standardize all AI development at ESSA, covering architecture, tooling, evaluation, and deployment.
    • Leading multi-department AI PoCs across Legal, Human Capital, Subsurface Analysis, Plant Operations, and Finance to accelerate high-value use case discovery and validate production readiness.
  2. Oct 2025 – Jul 2026

    AI Learning Engineer

    PT Lippo Malls Indonesia

    • Engineered an AI-powered HVAC optimization system, cutting operational costs by more than 30% by managing energy consumption with predictive ML models on real-time IoT sensor data.
    • Designed and deployed an AI Leasing Assistant, increasing leasing team productivity by focusing their effort on high-potential customers, with a LangGraph multi-agent system that responds to clients 24/7 and generates lead reports.
    • Built an agentic RAG chatbot grounded in internal SOPs and regulations, improving employee information retrieval accuracy with LangGraph, Qdrant, Redis, and LLM-as-a-Judge on on-premise vLLM.
  3. Sep 2023 – Sep 2025

    Data & Machine Learning Engineer

    PT Pupuk Indonesia (Persero)

    • Developed an AI-based predictive maintenance system that reduced unscheduled shutdowns from 15 to 0 within 8 months, preventing potential losses of up to IDR 24B per incident and winning Best Innovation at the Pupuk Indonesia Innovation Awards 2025.
    • Built an AI-based profit and loss projection for Pupuk Indonesia Group, cutting projection time for all subsidiaries from 7 working days to 15 minutes with over 95% accuracy.
    • Engineered and managed an enterprise-grade data platform using Snowflake, establishing a single source of truth to unify data operations across all Pupuk Indonesia Group business lines.
  4. Oct 2021 – Sep 2023

    Machine Learning Curriculum Developer

    Dicoding Indonesia

    • Designed and maintained data science and machine learning courses for thousands of learners, using NLP sentiment analysis on student feedback to drive measurable improvements in curriculum quality and engagement.

Projects

Selected systems I've designed and shipped. Most are internal to the companies I built them for.

AI Leasing Assistant

Lippo Malls Indonesia

A LangGraph multi-agent system that answers leasing clients around the clock and generates reports for high-value leads.

  • LangGraph
  • Multi-agent
  • vLLM

Agentic RAG Knowledge Assistant

Lippo Malls Indonesia

An agentic RAG chatbot grounded in SOPs and regulations, served on on-premise vLLM with Redis and Qdrant memory, evaluated with LLM-as-a-Judge.

  • Agentic RAG
  • Qdrant
  • Redis
  • LLM-as-a-Judge

HVAC Energy Optimization

Lippo Malls Indonesia

Predictive ML models on real-time IoT sensor data that manage HVAC energy consumption, cutting operational costs by more than 30%.

  • IoT
  • Predictive ML
  • Optimization

Predictive Maintenance

Pupuk Indonesia

An AI-based predictive maintenance system that cut unscheduled plant shutdowns from 15 to 0 within 8 months, preventing losses of up to IDR 24B per incident.

  • Predictive ML
  • Plant operations
  • Best Innovation 2025

Profit & Loss Projection

Pupuk Indonesia Group

AI-based P&L projection for every subsidiary, compressing a 7-working-day process into 15 minutes with over 95% accuracy.

  • Forecasting
  • Finance
  • Automation

Enterprise Data Platform

Pupuk Indonesia Group

An enterprise-grade Snowflake platform that serves as a single source of truth, unifying data operations across every business line in the group.

  • Snowflake
  • dbt
  • Data engineering

Achievements

Innovation awards and teaching.

  • Best Innovation

    Pupuk Indonesia Innovation Awards

    2025
  • Platinum Award

    TKMPN National Innovation

    2024
  • Best Sustainability

    Pupuk Indonesia Innovation Awards

    2024
  • Machine Learning Instructor

    Bangkit Academy, led by Google, GoTo & Traveloka

Skills

AI

  • Machine Learning
  • Agentic AI
  • Multi-agent Systems
  • Agentic RAG
  • LLM-as-a-Judge
  • NLP
  • MLOps

Programming Languages

  • Python
  • SQL
  • NoSQL

Framework & Platform

  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
  • TensorFlow
  • vLLM
  • FastAPI
  • Qdrant
  • Redis
  • Snowflake
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • Azure

Education

Brawijaya University

B.Sc. in Computational Physics · GPA 3.54/4.0 Aug 2017 – Jul 2021

Bangkit Academy 2021

Machine Learning Specialization · led by Google, GoTo & Traveloka Feb – Jul 2021

Selective, industry-led program on TensorFlow development and deep learning, capped by a team capstone building a Flood Disaster Warning System.

Let's build something.

Open to conversations about LLM systems, agentic AI, and MLOps.