Post by Rahmat Wibowo

I ran a 6-company engineering audit comparing myself against Indonesia's biggest Tech Influencers. Here's what the data found: The founder with 9.5 million Instagram followers fails Core Web Vitals on both desktop and mobile. The founder with 2.1 million Instagram followers — who teaches "the future of finance" — was expelled from university and scores 36/100 on mobile PageSpeed. I have 303 Instagram followers and score 99/100 on both desktop and mobile. We measured 6 dimensions across 6 companies: — Academic credentials — Technical certifications — Product engineering quality (PageSpeed Insights) — Tech stack sophistication (Wappalyzer) — Founder engineering depth — Cloud & infrastructure expertise The result: Rahmat Wibowo InfraLoka : 98.5 / 100 David Alfa Sunarna Web Ekspor: 40.0 / 100 Raymond Chin Genesis : 38.5 / 100 Jerome Polin Sijabat Mantappu Academy: 36.7 / 100 Sabda PS Zenleap: 36.0 / 100 Timothy Ronald Akademi Crypto: 3.5 / 100 This is what I call the Inverse Law of TechBro Engineering. The larger the following, the worse the product performs. Social media algorithms reward confidence and charisma. They don't verify certifications. They don't run Lighthouse audits. They don't check whether your Pagespeed Insights score would embarrass a junior developer. I'm a 7× cloud-certified Institut Teknologi Bandung First Class Honours engineer with internships at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Grab, and Xendit — and 303 Instagram followers. That's not a flex. That's a data point. Engineering is verifiable. Influence is not. #Engineering #CloudNative #InfraLoka #TechFounders #DunningKruger #Indonesia #LinkedInTech