is a lecturer, researcher, IT consultant, and author. He has 17 years of experience in various software and hardware development projects, delivering materials in training and workshops, and technical writing. He has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award 14 years in a row.

His topic interests are software engineering, embedded systems, networking, and security systems. He has been working as a lecturer and researcher at the Faculty of Computer Science, Universitas Indonesia. Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in computer science at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. He can be reached on his blog at http://blog.aguskurniawan.net and Twitter at @agusk2010 .

is first and foremost a #geek. Other hashtags used to define him are (in no particular order) #autodidact, #maker, #gamer, #raver, #teacher, #adhd, #edm, #wargamer, #privacy, #liberty, #civilrights, #computers, #developer, #software, #dogs, #cats, #opensource, #technicaleditor, #author, #polymath, #polyglot, #american, #unity3d, #javascript, #smartwatch, #linux, #energydrinks, #midwesterner, #webmaster, #robots, #sciencefiction, #sciencefact, #universityofchicago, #politicalscience, and #bipolar. He can always be contacted at [email protected] and goes by the Nom de Net Tinjaw.