Faris Rahman studied industrial engineering at Institut Teknologi Bandung. He and Meidy Fitranto had met in junior high school and reconnected at ITB. Both were interested in IT.
In 2016 the two founded Nodeflux. It started as a big-data analytics platform. By late 2016 they saw high demand for computer vision and almost no Indonesian company working on it, so they switched to vision AI.
Rahman is the co-founder and CTO. The first systems needed heavy automation and repeated rework between 2016 and 2018.
Nodeflux raised a seed round in June 2017 from Qlue, Adskom and Prasetia Dwidharma. East Ventures invested in 2018. That year the company also worked on the Asian Games and the IMF-World Bank meetings, became an NVIDIA Metropolis partner and placed in the top 25 of a NIST face recognition test.