ARSEN DAVIDSON

Application Security Engineer | Purple | DevSecOps

About

Application Security Engineer with 5+ years of experience in securing 1,800+ cloud-native services and leading AppSec automation across Southeast Asia’s largest platforms. Proven success integrating DevSecOps and threat modeling at scale, with measurable impact on vulnerability detection and developer efficiency.

Work

tiket.com
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Sr. Application Security

Summary

One of Indonesia's leading online travel agencies, serving over 20 million users with a comprehensive platform for flights, hotels, train tickets, and more. Part of the Blibli ecosystem, tiket.com plays a key role in shaping digital travel experiences across Southeast Asia.

Highlights

Led DevSecOps implementation and onboarding organization-wide.

ByteDance (Tiktok Shop)
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Sr. Application Security

Summary

Led Tokopedia security integration during platform migration at ByteDance, improving vulnerability detection, asset coverage, and compliance.

Highlights

Drove security integration for a large-scale migration project, covering 1,800+ repositories and 1,300+ domains/IPs across a major e-commerce platform.

Contributed to PCI DSS scans and compliance for multiple cloud instances.

Led security readiness and control validation for 80+ services during platform migration, including WAF, HIDS, and source control enforcement.

Launched quick-check threat modeling template used for 199 projects, reducing developer friction while meeting compliance standards.

Led GoTo Logistics (GTL) security unification by rolling out whitebox/blackbox coverage and enforced repo-level security controls.

GoTo
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DevSecOps

Summary

Joined Devsecops team after the merger of Gojek and Tokopedia. Integrating security tools and implementation between two platform during the migration phase and securing more of GOTO tribes.

Highlights

Implement GHAS (SAST) for Bridestory tribe, introduce additional security control for Bridestory repository.

Implement blocking for critical findings in SQLi and RCE (Code Scan), we managed to reduce the critical alerts by about 90% from this initiative

Implementing the Shift-Left on Goto Logistic (GTL) by utilizing GHAS security scan capabilities with a blocking system following Toko successful initiative in reducing security findings.

Integrating the deployment-blocking on Dependency (Dependabot) critical vulnerability in Tokopedia CI/CD in Clusters

Tokopedia
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Product Security Engineer

Summary

Indonesia's largest e-commerce platform and technology company, empowering over 100 million monthly active users and 11 million merchants nationwide. Tokopedia drives digital transformation across commerce, logistics, and financial services in Southeast Asia.

Highlights

Develop Automation Tools for Product Security

Maintaining security dashboard across all Security team to follow up security findings from SAST, DAST, PRISMA, Rapid7 and enforce internal security policy

Cross collaboration with Engineering Productivity team to drive vulnerability management to remediate vulnerabilities reported from GHAS Code Scanning and Dependabot

Built centralized RBAC and automation for provisioning/ deprovisioning user access on external/ internal tools

POLYTRON (HIT)
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Software Engineer

Summary

A pioneering Indonesian electronics company founded in 1975, specializing in the design, manufacturing, and distribution of consumer electronics such as TVs, refrigerators, audio systems, air conditioners, and smartphones.

Highlights

Developed Polytron HR supporting apps and panels

Configure and manage Dockerization on projects (NodeJs, Golang, PHP)

POLYTRON (HIT)
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Web and Android Developer (Intern)

Summary

Collaborated with teams to create and deliver Android and/or Web based projects from development and QA testing to production.

Education

BINUS UNIVERSITY

Bachelor's degree

Bachelor of Science, Game & Interactive Media

Grade: 3.78

Skills

Programming Languages & Frameworks

Go, Python, Javascript, React, Java, Node.js, PHP, Groovy.

Security Practices

Security Technical Review, Secure SDLC, Threat Modeling, DevSecOps.

Infra & Databases

Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.

Security Tools & DevOps

SAST, DAST, SCA, Jenkins, Ansible, Github Actions, GItlab CI/CD.

Projects

JagaData - PII Detection Engine
JagaData - PII Detection Engine

Summary

Self-hosted PII scanner for Indonesian UU PDP compliance. Runs locally, stores data in-browser, and scans client DBs securely via AES-encrypted connections.

Trivy Viewer Dashboard
Trivy Viewer Dashboard

Summary

A client-side security report viewer for Trivy, designed for security professionals. Load Trivy JSON reports directly in your browser no server, no data leaks.

Threat Modeling Cheat Sheet
Threat Modeling Cheat Sheet

Summary

A minimalist web app used as a walkthrough for developer that has concern for security. Identify, analyze, and mitigate potential security threats across your application components.

More Projects
More Projects

Summary

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