I’ve spent twenty years across engineering and product, building marketplaces, subscriptions, and the systems underneath them at Rakuten Viki and Gojek. Today I build independently as the founder of The Builder Course, a small-cohort AI agent course that brings product, design, and engineering rigour to what people ship with AI.
At Gojek, I led the ML-driven marketplace and fulfillment platforms behind ride-hailing, food, and delivery, processing millions of transactions a day. Before that, I spent eight years at Rakuten Viki, moving from software engineering into product and taking its subscription business from zero to a global product across web, iOS, and Android. I was at Viki through the Rakuten acquisition and at Gojek through the IPO.
I’m drawn to work where the complexity sits beyond the feature itself: marketplaces, platforms, subscriptions, incentives, workflows, and the systems underneath them. I now build products end to end—including auth, payments, analytics, and distribution—and work with serious teams full-time, fractionally, or as a consultant.
I also help solopreneurs and small teams use AI to find bottlenecks, reduce operational overhead, and unlock scale.
Reach me at deepika@thebuildercourse.com or on LinkedIn.
A small-cohort AI agent course for people, offered in person in Singapore and online. Participants apply product, design, and engineering rigour to scope, build, deploy, and defend an agent for real work.
AI makes it easy to produce software. It does not make it easy to judge what should exist, how it should work, or whether it is ready. I founded The Builder Course to help people turn a real workflow into an agent while applying product, design, and engineering rigour to every consequential decision. I run it with practitioners across product, design, engineering, and applied AI.
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