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Founder

Muhammad Hijazi

Founder at iReka Soft Enterprise. Development, design, marketing, and content.

Muhammad Hijazi

Introduction

Hi, my name is Muhammad Hijazi. I am the founder at iReka Soft Enterprise. You may call me Hijazi. I do development, design, marketing, and content at my own business. These days I spend most of my time on Laravel and React, and sometimes React Native when a project needs mobile.

For design I work in Sketch, Figma, and Pencil. On the mobile side I still tinker with native modules on Expo when something needs to go deeper than JavaScript alone. By being good at what I do, I can earn a living and help other people build their apps too.

Mobile industry

Incredible time to meet with people who build iOS software.

The modern mobile industry is just at the beginning. I am thrilled for what comes next. I anticipated this kind of tech a long time ago — as a kid, I imagined holding a device where I could read books and use a full-screen mobile phone. Back then it was only Nokia phones with buttons. As we grew up, Apple made it real in 2007, and by 2008 opened the platform for developers.

Personal story

It has been a long way through IT, multimedia, web, and the internet industry. It started in the 90s with MS-DOS — command prompts, no mouse, selecting up and down. Sometimes I broke the interface into ghost characters and waited weeks for repairs. Nostalgic games like Prince of Persia, Aladdin, and racing titles — plus early database and BASIC programs. Text was everything.

Then came the Windows 9x era, dial-up internet, and the reformasi period in 1998. I made websites with Microsoft FrontPage and uploaded them to tripod.com — manually linking HTML pages one by one. Later I used Macromedia Flash and Adobe Dreamweaver.

I studied in Japan at Tokyo University of Technology (東京工科大学), choosing Computer Science to learn more about ICT. In Japan the industry was advanced — gaming, ecommerce, websites, Flash, and software everywhere. I learned C and Java formally, and PHP, HTML, jQuery, and CSS on my own. In 2009 I started Objective-C for iPhone on an iPhone 3G. I published my first app after graduating in 2010: CalcDrill. It reached #1 in Japan's free Education category on the App Store.

Fast forward — I have built a number of iOS apps since. The goal is quality software and sustainable work. It is still an exciting experience.

Timeline

2026

  • Launched Orderla FOS
  • Joined Laravel Live in Tokyo, Japan
Laravel Live in Tokyo, Japan

2025

  • Launched Orderla.co
  • Joined Tech Startup Bootcamp
  • Joined Stripe Tour in Singapore
  • Joined Stripe Startup Program

2023

  • Based in RekaScape, Cyberjaya

2022

  • Joined SAP Accelerator Program

2021

  • Joined Teraju SUPERB Program

2020

  • Launched Orderla.my

2019

  • Experimenting to setup Laravel on VPS

2018

  • Q1 Learn React Native

2017

  • Q1 Learn Ionic
  • Based in Magic co-working space in Cyberjaya
iReka Soft based in Magic co-working space in Cyberjaya

2016

  • Q1 Learn Laravel
  • Q3 Learn UI/UX (Design + Code Course)
  • Q3 Learn Swift 3

2015

  • Q2 Setup iReka Soft Enterprise
  • Q3 Android Studio course
  • Q4 WordPress and Bootstrap course

2014

  • Learn about iOS Push Notifications, iBeacon, Passbook
  • Q4 Learning Ruby on Rails
  • iRekaSoft.com website redesign with Bootstrap

2013

  • Full time iReka Soft development
  • Published first Android app (Steve Jobs Quotes)
  • iOS 7 Tech Talk in Shanghai
  • iOS 7 Kitchen in Singapore
iOS 7 Tech Talk in Shanghai

2012

  • Published Golden Guli
  • Casual Connect SG

2011

  • Established iReka Soft entity. iRekaSoft.com was up
  • Q2 Published FaceClock Calendar
  • Q2 Won IPCC 2011 from MDeC for Golden Guli game

2010

  • Graduated from Tokyo University of Technology in Computer Science
  • Q1 Published CalcDrill (first app on the App Store)
  • Q2 Worked at start-up app developer company
  • Q4 Published FaceClock 1.0 (global hit app)

2009

  • Learn Java
  • Learn iPhone OS 2.0 and Objective-C

Tools for developing mobile experience

Xcode, Coda, Android Studio, Sketch, and Blender — the everyday stack for designing, building, and shipping mobile software.

Development tools

Tools for the AI age

  • Cursor

    AI-native code editor for writing, refactoring, and shipping software faster.

  • Claude

    Anthropic's AI assistant for reasoning, writing, and pair-programming on complex work.

  • ChatGPT

    OpenAI's conversational AI for ideation, drafts, and quick problem-solving.

  • Codex

    OpenAI's coding agent for building features, fixing bugs, and working across the codebase.

  • Figma

    Collaborative UI/UX design, prototyping, and handoff for product teams.

  • Pencil

    Design-on-canvas in the IDE — explore layouts and land them closer to production code.