Curriculum Vitae

Contact Information

Petra Novandi Barus (Petra)

Jakarta 13th November 1987
Jl. Cisitu Baru no. 12, Bandung
West Java, Indonesia
petra.barus@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/petrabarus
http://linkedin.com/in/petrabarus
http://petrabarus.net
A very motivated and fast-learning individual who likes to share knowledges to
the others. My primary goal is to become a nationally-known computer science
educators thus help shaping Indonesian young IT professionals.

Educations and Qualifications

Formal Education
Date Institution
1999 – 2002 SMA Kolese Kanisius Jakarta Junior High
2002 – 2005 SMA Negeri 8 Jakarta Senior High
2005 – 2009 Bachelor Program of Informatics Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Institut Teknologi Bandung
2009 – now Magister Program of Computer Science
School of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Institut Teknologi Bandung

Courses & Trainings

Date Institution
1999 – 2003 Intermediate-Advanced level English Course
STB LIA Kelapa Gading Jakarta
2005 – 2006 Basic level Japanese Course
BLCI Bandung
2010 Self Insight Awareness (SIAWare)
Motivational Training held by Ikatan Alumni ITB

Work Experiences

Date Institution Position

2006 – 2009 Indonesian Computer Olympiad Tutor
Team Tutoring basic algorithm
knowledge, C/C++ language, and

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2007 ITB Open Source Software Employee
Empowerment Center Responsible for managing and
administrating Linux server,
consulting for open source software
technical, and training basic
proficiency of open source software
2008 – 2010 National Science Olympiad Assistant Judge
Building contest automated judge
system for grading contestants’
answers.
2008 PT Indosat, Tbk Internship Employee
Building file decoder application
for SLI Digital Router
2008 – 2010 School of Electrical Engineering Assistant Lecturer
and Informatics, Institut Assisting in two lectures: Operating
Teknologi Bandung System Lecture and Internet
Programming Lecture
Assistant Researcher
Assisting in research to build a
large repository for Indonesian
traditional languages

Organizational Experiences

Date Institution Position

2006 – 2008 Himpunan Mahasiswa Member of Research and
Informatika ITB Development Division
2007 – 2008 ITB Table Tennis Club Club President
2009 – 2010 Java User Group Bandung Member of Board Committee

Key Competencies

Competencies
Programming • My main interest is distributed system. Currently I’m working on
Skills parallel programming on top of General Purpose Graphical
Processing Unit (GPGPU) using nVIDIA CUDA C Library
• I have extensive skills on developing web application using PHP.
I used variety of PHP frameworks such as Yii, Kohana,
CodeIgniter. I am good with XHTML and CSS.
• I have good skills on developing with Java SE, Java ME, and Java
EE. I mainly develop Java applications using Netbeans IDE.
• I have basic proficiency of many programming languages such as
Pascal, C#, Ruby, LISP, and Python.
• I’m skilled in using and managing Linux web servers using
Apache and MySQL.
Language Skills • I took English course for four years starting from intermediate
level until advanced class. When I was still in college, I was
placed at the English writing class. I enjoy writing in English and
I don’t have any problem participating in an English

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• I have basic Japanese skills enabling me to read and write in
simple Japanese.
Writing Skills • I like to write my personal experience at my personal blog
http://petrabarus.net
• I also like to write programming tutorials at my personal
technical blog http://maleskoding.wordpress.com
• Since I became trainer at many occassions, I wrote many training
modules mainly about programming skills and open source
software proficiency.
Presentation Skills • I became trainer at many occassions with many audiences
ranging from 10 to 70 individuals.
• I was a lecture assistant for few lectures at my college.
Event Organizing • I involved as primary organizing committee for few events from
a national table tennis event to IT talkshow and programming
workshops.

Interests
I have many activities I would love to spend my time at. They are
• Reading ~ I like to read novels especially novels with science fictions, mythology, and history
genre. Few of them are Tom Clancy’s, Eragon, Jason Bourne, etc.
• Film ~ I love to watch films and TV serials with the same genre as stated above. My favourite films
or serials are Band of Brothers, Big Bang Theory, Star Wars, The Lord of The Ring, etc.
• Programming, Culinary, Drawing