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A personal archive. Last touched September 2026.

Digital advisor, Consultant, Program Manager

Cita Wijaya

I can't sit still. My time goes into learning something, cleaning the house, fixing things, or working out how to fix things. I like going places I haven't been and I like talking to people. Most of my work is that same habit applied to somebody else's problem.

Right now: advising on digital programs, running remote operations for a business in Sydney, and building websites for people who need one that works. This page is where I keep the rest of it.

Work 4 jobs Books 5 books Films 5 films Places 7 countries
The + signs open.

Work

+ Teman Teknologi Anda Own practice

The name means "your technology friend", which is roughly the job. I take on projects for people who need a working website rather than a rebrand. So far: a full revamp for ChainOptix, an NGO in Zambia, a new site for Pietas Law, a law firm in the US, and the website plus marketing material for Kodiak Consulting, also in the US.

Scoping, structure, content, build, handover. Small clients, no layers, decisions in a day.

Projects inside ChainOptix — website revamp, Zambia Pietas Law — new website, United States Kodiak Consulting — website and marketing material, United States
+ Canalside Sydney, remote

Remote operations manager and digital consultant, running the day-to-day of a business eight hours ahead of me. Most of it is process, documentation, and making sure the handover at either end of the day holds.

Shape of it Operations, systems, process, async by default.
+ USAID Digital Development Advisor

Advising on digital development work: what digital elements is right for the activities, and who is going to maintain it after the funding ends. Talk to people a lot about how the technology works.

Shape of it Advisory, development programs, digital strategy.
+ Mekari Senior Technical Program Manager

Technical program management across several engineering teams — dependencies, sequencing, and the meetings that stop two teams building the same thing twice.

Shape of it Cross-team programs, technical delivery, SaaS.

Books

Five books I enjoy the most.

Cover of The Fall by Albert Camus

The Fall

Albert Camus · 1956

A man in an Amsterdam bar talks at you for a hundred pages and turns his confession into yours. I read it thrice.

Cover of The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger

Albert Camus · 1942

He is really convicted for not grieving the way people expected him to. That part stayed with me longer than the killing did.

Cover of At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft

At the Mountains of Madness

H. P. Lovecraft · 1936

Written as expedition notes, which is why it works on me — a report from people who kept measuring things they should have run from.

Cover of The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky · 1869

A genuinely good man walks into Petersburg society and everyone treats his honesty as a defect. Long, and worth it.

Cover of The Collector by John Fowles

The Collector

John Fowles · 1963

Told twice over: first by a man who thinks he is being reasonable, then by the person he is holding. Not comfortable, but the way those two voices refuse to match is the best thing in it.

Send me one if you have it. I do actually read them.

Films

Five, in no particular order. 1927 to 2004.

Poster for Metropolis (1927)

Metropolis

Fritz Lang · 1927

Silent, and still remember the amazement when I first watched the movie almost 20 years ago when I was in uni.

Poster for Tokyo Story (1953)

Tokyo Story

Yasujirō Ozu · 1953

Two parents visit their grown children in Tokyo and everyone is very polite about the distance between them. Almost nothing happens. That's the best thing about it.

Poster for City of God (2002)

City of God

Fernando Meirelles · 2002

Twenty years in a Rio favela, told out of order and very fast. I have never forgotten the first ten minutes. Watched this perhaps more than 10 times.

Poster for Before Sunset (2004)

Before Sunset

Richard Linklater · 2004

Two people walk around Paris and talk for eighty minutes. That is the whole film and it is enough. 'Baby, you're gonna miss that plane.'

Poster for In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

In the Mouth of Madness

John Carpenter · 1994

Carpenter doing Lovecraft. Badly reviewed at the time; I do not care. Read the Lovecraft above first.

Places

I go for the food, the buildings, the people, the museums and the parks. Click a red country on the map.

Visited Tap a red country, drag to spin
+ Thailand Southeast Asia
Cities Bangkok, Pattaya

Best food I have eaten hands down, I keep thinking about the egg omelette there and it's been 13 years.

+ Malaysia Southeast Asia
Cities Kuala Lumpur, Penang

Several food cultures on the same street, all of them good.

+ Taiwan East Asia
Cities Taipei, Taoyuan, Chiayi

Night markets, mountains right behind the city, and people who queue properly. Incredible hot summer though.

+ Australia Oceania
Cities Sydney

Explore almost the whole city and experienced the incredible zoo to riding on a helicopter above the city. Incredible place.

+ Belgium Europe
Cities Leuven, Brussels, Ghent, Antwerp, Bruges, Mechelen

Small country, far too many museums for its size. Quieter than other big European countries but that's what I genuinely love about Belgium. Delicious chocolate and beer.

+ Netherlands Europe
Cities Amsterdam

Everything is designed, including the water. Bicycles have right of way over everything. Be careful of them.

+ Germany Europe
Cities Aachen, Dortmund, Cologne

Shopping and watched a football match. Tall people everywhere.

Seven so far. I am not done.

Contact

Email is best. Work, or films, or a book I should read.

hello@citawijaya.com LinkedIn

About this page

I made this for myself, and I add to it when I remember to. LinkedIn is the only other place I keep a profile.

Cita Wijaya, 2026