Pandu Wisaksono Sastrowardoyo
Jakarta, Indonesia
psastrowardoyo@gmail.com
1@decentri.city
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/decentricity
GitHub: github.com/Decentricity
IMDb: imdb.com/title/tt35927678/
Profile
Hybrid technical and strategic leader with 17+ years of experience across regulated industries, digital transformation, applied research, systems engineering, venture building, and enterprise advisory work. Combines hands-on engineering depth with commercial, product, and policy fluency across sovereign AI, hybrid cloud, tokenized systems, decentralized platforms, Linux and Unix infrastructure, and enterprise adoption programs for financial institutions, public-sector organizations, and technology ventures. Served as an invited Senior Research Advisor for the MIT Digital Currency Initiative CBDC and Financial Inclusion Research Panel in 2022. Early AI work included expert-system development for environmental impact assessment reporting in 2007-2008. Across consulting, startup, enterprise, and independent work, has coded more than 200 applications spanning B2B systems, consumer products, prototypes, and hobby projects.
Professional Experience
Co-Founder and Director | Blocksphere | 2018 - Present
- Lead consulting, training, and solution design in AI, blockchain, and decentralized systems for Indonesian financial institutions, state entities, and enterprises.
- Advise clients on sovereign AI, hybrid cloud, tokenization, digital asset strategy, and enterprise blockchain implementation.
- Design and deliver executive and practitioner programs for corporate and government stakeholders.
- Translate emerging-technology concepts into implementation roadmaps, governance frameworks, and enterprise operating models.
Selected Consulting Projects and Engagements
- Delivered advisory, training, and implementation-oriented engagements for organizations including Bank Indonesia, OJK, Kominfo, Peruri, BCA, BNI, BRI, and BPJS Kesehatan.
- Architected a compliance-first digital gold tokenization platform enabling fractional ownership while aligning with OJK requirements.
- Built a blockchain-based e-waste traceability platform providing end-to-end tracking from collection through certified recycling.
- Developed a privacy-preserving governance and voting prototype for an education institution using verifiable on-chain records.
- Led blockchain and AI capability-building programs for enterprise and public-sector stakeholders in Indonesia.
Founder and CEO | DeBio Network | 2021 - 2024
- Architected a blockchain- and AI-integrated platform for privacy-preserving medical diagnostics and bioinformatics workflows.
- Served as technical founder while also leading company strategy, fundraising, and cross-functional execution.
- Managed interdisciplinary teams across AI, blockchain, and healthcare domains.
- Raised more than USD 2 million to support product development and growth.
- Positioned the company at the intersection of decentralized science, medical data privacy, and diagnostics infrastructure.
Founder | Myriad.Social | 2020 - 2024
- Built a decentralized social media platform with AI-assisted moderation and governance models.
- Led AI integration strategy, platform scalability planning, and product direction for global communities.
- Served as technical founder while also shaping business direction, product strategy, and ecosystem positioning.
- Raised more than USD 1.5 million.
- Developed product and governance concepts centered on user data ownership, decentralization, and multi-chain interoperability.
Senior Research Advisor | MIT Digital Currency Initiative | 2022
- Served on the CBDC and Financial Inclusion Research Panel, contributing subject-matter expertise on blockchain, digital currency, and financial inclusion.
- Contributed research and advisory input to policy discussions whose perspectives were reflected in a U.S. CBDC report released during the Biden administration.
- Worked in an international research and policy context on questions related to monetary innovation, inclusion, and digital public infrastructure.
Co-Founder and Board Member | Blockchain Zoo | circa 2017 - 2020
- Co-founded an early blockchain consulting and solutions company.
- Served as spokesperson and board member in media, partnership, and conference settings.
- Helped shape early market education and business development around blockchain adoption in Indonesia.
IBM Systems and Technology Group | 2011 - 2017
- Held roles including Country Product Leader, Technical Sales Manager (Asia Pacific), Territory General Manager, and Lab Services Technical Manager.
- Led pre-sales engineering, technical sales, and delivery support for AI-ready infrastructure across ASEAN and Asia Pacific, including storage, compute, and hybrid cloud solutions.
- Managed regional teams and enterprise relationships across financial services, telecom, and public sector accounts.
- Combined technical depth with commercial ownership, operational leadership, and consultative solution design for large-scale infrastructure programs.
Programming, Systems, and Security
- Programming languages: Prolog, Pascal, C, C++, JavaScript, Python, shell scripting, and Bash-heavy Unix command-line workflows
- Infrastructure and systems: Linux and Unix administration, virtual machines, Docker, systems software, hybrid cloud environments, HPC-oriented deployments, and AI infrastructure operations
- Development profile: hands-on builder with experience across more than 200 applications spanning enterprise systems, retail products, internal tools, experiments, and hobby software
- Data and technical tooling: Jupyter Notebook and other big-data and technical analysis tools used across AI, analytics, and platform-development workflows
- Security: Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH), held since 2013
Industry and Ecosystem Leadership
- Founding member and former Secretary-General of Asosiasi Blockchain Indonesia, contributing to early industry coordination, self-regulation, and public-policy engagement in Indonesia.
- Advisor and consultant to regulators, banks, state-owned enterprises, and ministries on blockchain strategy, crypto-asset regulation, and AI and blockchain convergence.
- Frequent moderator, trainer, and translator of complex technical material for executive, policy, and non-technical audiences.
Media and Public Communication
Executive Producer and Special Host | Bloomberg Technoz Podcast - TechnoZone | 2024 - Present
- Executive producer and host of a technology-focused show covering AI, cloud computing, digital transformation, and infrastructure.
- Lead discussions with founders, regulators, and industry leaders on the commercial and policy impact of emerging technologies.
- Extend subject-matter work into public communication for a broader business and policy audience.
Education
Walsh College, Michigan | MSc and Doctorate Candidate
- Current double-degree pathway at Walsh College.
- Completed prerequisite matriculation coursework through the University of Texas at Austin postgraduate collaboration with Walsh College.
Institut Teknologi Bandung | B.Eng., Environmental Engineering | 2008
- Undergraduate final project focused on an expert system for environmental impact analysis reporting, built in Visual Prolog.
Certifications and Professional Programs
- Academic certification in Python through the University of Texas at Austin
- Postgraduate Certificate, Machine Learning and AI: Building Data Science Solutions, MIT Professional Education, 2024
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Technologies, Johns Hopkins University, 2016
- Business Systems Analysis, University of Minnesota, 2020
- Multiple IBM technical certifications, including IBM Blockchain Developer, IBM Watson, and IBM Systems
Technical Expertise
- AI and machine learning model development and deployment, including self-hosted LLMs, applied bioinformatics, and expert systems
- Enterprise AI infrastructure, including hybrid cloud, HPC clusters, GPU workloads, sovereign AI environments, Linux and Unix systems, and virtualization
- Blockchain and decentralized systems, including tokenized platforms, privacy-preserving computation, multi-chain applications, enterprise architecture, and decentralized governance design
- Secure systems thinking, ethical hacking foundations, infrastructure hardening, and technical risk awareness in regulated environments
- Digital asset strategy, tokenization, governance design, and enterprise adoption planning
- Executive education, curriculum design, and technical communication for regulated and non-technical audiences
Honors and Awards
- ETHDenver Hackathon Winner, UN SDG Award for Decentralized Bioinformatics Network, 2022
- CNBC Indonesia Award for blockchain-based medical data innovation, 2022
- Indonesia World Women Leadership Award, 2021
- IBM PureSystems Worldwide Top 11 Super-Seller, 2013
Publications, Panels, and Selected Work
- Invited speaker, OECD Global Blockchain Policy Forum, 2020
- Invited speaker and participant, G20 4th Infrastructure Working Group / G20 Italy Multistakeholder Forum, 2021
- Co-author, Hosting AI di rumah: solusi open-source dan right-sizing LLM untuk kedaulatan digital, 2025. ISBN 978-634-01-1608-3
- Undergraduate final project and paper on an expert system for environmental impact analysis reporting, Institut Teknologi Bandung, 2008
- GitHub portfolio: Decentricity projects and experiments spanning technical prototypes, applications, and infrastructure-oriented work
- Selected essays and articles on AI infrastructure and autonomous AI marketplaces on LinkedIn, with additional contributions on expert systems and reinforcement learning for Techfor.id
- Numerous talks, panels, and workshops on blockchain regulation, crypto-assets, AI, digital infrastructure, and decentralized governance
References
Available upon request.