Brandon Wirakusuma

Brandon Wirakusuma has over 10 years of experience in the tech industry. Brandon began their career in 2011 as an Associate at BlackRock. That same year, they also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. In 2014, they joined Facebook as an Instagram Business Operations and Sales Operations. In 2017, they moved to Wish, where they held the role of General Manager - International Growth and General Manager - Southeast Asia, responsible for running growth in Southeast Asia. In this role, they led Wish to become the 4th most downloaded shopping app in the region in Q4 2019 and achieved a near 9 digit GMV annualized run rate. Brandon also held the role of Senior Data Scientist. In 2022, they were appointed Vice President Strategic Initiatives at VIDA Digital Identity.

Brandon Wirakusuma obtained their Bachelor of Science in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University in 2011. Prior to that, they obtained an International Baccalaureate Diploma from Sekolah Pelita Harapan in 2007. In addition, they have obtained several certifications, including Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter Tuning, Regularization and Optimization from DeepLearning.AI in 2021, Neural Networks and Deep Learning from DeepLearning.AI in 2021, Structuring Machine Learning Projects from DeepLearning.AI in 2021, Applied Machine Learning in Python from Coursera in 2021, Modern Art & Ideas from Coursera in 2020, DAT208x: Introduction to Python for Data Science from edX in 2018, Practical Machine Learning from Coursera in 2017, MITX E15.071x: The Analytics Edge from MITx on edX in 2015, Exploratory Data Analysis from Coursera in 2014, and Computing for Data Analysis from Coursera in 2013.