Kevin Kurniawan is a co-founder of Dicoding, a developer community and training company based in Bandung. He started it with Narenda Wicaksono and Akbar Hidayat. In 2015 the founders left stable corporate careers with no guaranteed income.
Dicoding launched on 5 January 2015, and about 500 developers joined shortly after. DailySocial invested in March 2015. Developers outside the capital were held back by distance and language barriers, so the team ran 630 offline events between 2015 and 2018.
In 2016 Dicoding became a Google Developers Authorized Training Partner and partnered with Bekraf on an event. In 2017 it opened payments through Bukalapak and Tokopedia. In 2018 it offered 1,000 Google Picodiploma scholarships.
By early 2019 about 140,000 developers from 454 cities were using Dicoding.