About the Developer

By day, I work as a Senior IT Consultant, IT Business Analyst and Project Manager, helping organisations untangle messy processes and turn them into something clearer and easier to run.

Before that, I coordinated projects in higher education, and before that, I spent two years as a frontline police officer in Singapore — which taught me more than anything else about staying calm, communicating clearly, and looking out for the people around you when things get chaotic.

Jia came out of a simple, very unoriginal problem: my own family's admin was scattered across half a dozen apps, and I got tired of it. A calendar here, a shopping list there, a group chat that had become an unsearchable wall of messages — nothing talked to each other, and someone always ended up carrying the mental load of remembering what everyone else forgot.

I figured I wasn't the only one.

So I'm building the tool I wanted for my own household: one private, simple app for the calendar, the chat, the to-dos, and the shopping list — built the way I'd want it built if it were going to hold my own family's life. That means taking data privacy seriously from the ground up, not as an afterthought bolted on later, and keeping things genuinely simple rather than piling on features nobody asked for.

Around the same time, a smaller but equally annoying problem was sitting in the glovebox: keeping a mileage logbook for tax purposes. I'd start one, forget to fill it in for three weeks, and end up trying to reconstruct trips from memory come tax time — which is exactly the kind of thing the ATO doesn't love and I didn't enjoy doing. 

So I built Wheels, a mileage tracker that logs trips automatically and exports them in a format ready for tax purposes. Same philosophy as Jia, just aimed at a different pile of admin: solve the annoying thing myself, then make it available to anyone else stuck doing the same.

Jia is currently in closed testing on iOS with my own family and a few close friends — the people I trust most to tell me when something isn't working. Android is next. Wheels is currently in closed testing on iOS too, with Android to follow soon.

If you're one of the people testing either app with me: thank you. These apps exist because you're willing to put up with the rough edges while I get them right.