About

Many people who look at my experience ask the same question:

How many jobs have you actually had?

At seventeen, my family handed me a plane ticket, and I flew off to West Africa to sell shoes. Over the next twenty-plus years, I spent time in Ghana, China, and South Africa, and eventually returned to Taiwan. I’ve worked in trade, quality control for shoe factories, managing a factory of over four hundred people, civil engineering, plumbing and electrical work, and low-voltage systems. Now, I am an independent developer. It might look like I’ve been constantly changing career paths. But in reality, I’ve been doing the same thing all along.

Organize chaos into a functional system.

I haven't been constantly changing jobs; I've just been constantly solving different problems.

During the years I spent trading in West Africa, the company was my own. So, there was no such thing as "that's not my job." I had to manage employees, look after clients, handle procurement, oversee the warehouse, manage imports and exports, deal with customs declarations, keep internal and external accounts, and file taxes—I had to handle it all myself. When problems arose, there was no supervisor to pass the buck to. I had to find the answers myself. In those years, what I learned most wasn't just how to do business, but how to take the various big and small issues that happen in a company every day and organize them one by one until everything ran smoothly. Later, when I worked in quality control for a shoe factory in China, I began to understand factory processes. Quality, lead times, shipping, and coordinating with the factory—everything had a set rhythm. Then, in South Africa, I was responsible for the processing department of a factory with over 400 people, as well as the entire warehouse. I was calculating every single day. How to schedule raw materials, how to reduce waste, how to fit more items into limited space, and how to keep production from stopping. Because if you miscalculated, it was real money going up in smoke. After returning to Taiwan, I entered the civil engineering industry, where I stayed for seven years. The biggest difference from a factory is that a construction site changes every day. Today's plan might be obsolete by tomorrow. What truly matters isn't the process, but whether you can quickly find a new solution when problems arise. Having worked in both factories and construction, I slowly realized: Many people think the problem lies in the technology. In reality, most problems are simply a result of chaotic information and messy processes, with no one willing to spend the time to organize them clearly.

So, I started making my own tools.

I didn't start writing software because I wanted to start a business. I started because I was bothered by the same problems every day. I used Excel for bookkeeping for many years. Eventually, I couldn't take it anymore, so I built Ledgerly. Every time I was in the middle of work and had to switch windows to jot something down, my train of thought would be interrupted. So, I built OrbitNote. I’ve seen too many situations on construction sites where handovers were unclear and accountability couldn't be traced. So, I built paiapiaproof, which links photos, timestamps, and handover records into a complete chain of responsibility. Even this website exists because I don't want to keep doing the same things over and over. Once an article is written, it is automatically translated into English, synced to different platforms, videos are transcoded, and content is organized—all automatically. I like to delegate repetitive tasks to code, leaving my time for the things that truly require thought.

I am not a formally trained engineer.

I don't have a background in computer science, nor have I ever worked at a software company. My journey has always been about encountering problems in real-world work and finding ways to solve them. Now, I develop products alongside AI. Not because AI can replace people. But because it allows one person to accomplish what used to require an entire team. I believe that what is truly valuable isn't whether or not you can write code. It’s whether you can identify a problem, break it down, and ultimately get things done. Technology is just a tool. Understanding the problem is the truly difficult part.

How can I help you?

If you have a problem that repeats every day—whether it's related to workflows, data organization, record management, automation, or a product idea that’s been stuck in your head—I would be happy to explore it with you. The projects I take on are usually not large. Most are tasks that one person can complete, but they require someone who understands processes, the practical side of things, and technology all at once. I don't have a large team. However, I am very good at breaking complex matters down, step by step, into manageable tasks. If this happens to be the kind of problem you are facing right now, perhaps we could chat.

If you want to reach out to me, you don't need to have all your thoughts organized first. Just tell me where you're stuck right now. We'll break down the rest together.

holalouisliu@gmail.com