About

About

I grew up in Bali. I did high school in Perth, finished in the top 7% of the country, then went to Paris for a double major in maths and economics at École Polytechnique, then an MSc in econometrics and statistics. Somewhere in there I stopped wanting to be a researcher and started wanting to build things that ship.

Everything I do now sits at the same intersection: rigorous enough to trust the number, pragmatic enough to launch on Thursday. Day to day that means owning a growth and automation roadmap with a CMO — shipping product features that started life as non-engineering requests, wiring AI agents into CRM and CMS systems, and building the internal tools Sales, CSM and Marketing actually open every morning.

Before that: five years of lead generation, enrichment, scoring and attribution pipelines; SQL cohort and funnel analysis; and growth experiments shipped as lightweight product features. An MSc in econometrics sits underneath all of it.

Long term I want to run an incubator in my hometown. Mid term, my own company. Right now, ALOKA Space is the beginning of that.

Nicholas Budiharsa, GTM engineer portrait
  • MSc Econometrics and Statistics

    TSE

    2023

  • BSc Mathematics and Economics

    École Polytechnique

    2020

  • Indonesian

    Native

  • English

    C1

  • French

    B2

I served as president of the Indonesian Student Association in France and founded Sustainathon.id, a sustainability innovation program connecting Indonesian students abroad with problems back home.

I'm an active member of GoGreenIndonesia, a foundation focused on sustainability in Indonesia that works closely with Rotary groups in Bali.

Outside of that: photography, mostly on foot and mostly at dusk, and basketball, badly but consistently.