A digital experience creator building transit & travel-tech for Malaysia and the region, plus the real-time data APIs that power it, all with AI assistance and no traditional coding background.
I'm the founder of TechMavie Digital, where I build real-time public-transport apps and the multi-provider transit API behind them. My journey started in content writing ✍🏻 back in 2019 (220+ articles, 400+ content briefs for clients worldwide), grew through 2+ years of contributing transit data to Moovit 🚌, and has become a full transit-tech stack serving 11+ Malaysian cities with 117K+ API requests served.
I'm also a licensed tour guide in Penang 🙋🏻♂️ (since July 2025), which is exactly why my apps obsess over the real arrival experience: immigration, cashless payments, and getting from the airport to your hotel by bus 🌏🇲🇾.
- 🚌 Malaysia Transit: real-time bus, train & ferry tracking across 11+ Malaysian cities (and across the Causeway into Singapore as well as further up north to Hat Yai), with a journey planner, fare calculator, AI assistant, and 13 languages. Free.
- 🛂 SG-JB Transit: the first app to merge both sides of the Causeway (Singapore LTA + Johor Bahru) into one real-time view, with dual-currency fares and MRT crowd density. Free.
- 🧳 Tour With Alan: a 10-language Malaysia arrival guide with a live post-immigration journey planner across 12 entry points (visa, autogate/MyNIISE QR, SIM, cashless, airport-to-hotel transit). Free.
- 🔌 Malaysia Transit API: production-ready, enriched, multi-provider real-time transit data over a clean REST API.
The differentiator: core feeds come from data.gov.my and LTA DataMall, but operators with no open feed (ERL/KLIA Ekspres, Penang Ferry, Bas Muafakat Johor, Causeway Link, SRT for Malaysia-Thailand, City Public Link) have their GTFS built and maintained in-house. That's coverage most Malaysian transit apps don't have.
- 🔧 MCP servers: ~20 open-source Model Context Protocol servers connecting AI models to live data (Malaysian open data, GrabMaps, LTA DataMall, Brave, Exa, Perplexity, GitHub, YouTube, Reddit, Ghost CMS, Nextcloud, and more), self-hosted at
mcp.techmavie.digital. - 📊 BAS.MY Open Data: an unofficial open-data hub for BAS.MY bus ridership statistics across Malaysian cities.
- Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion
- Backend: Node.js + Express, REST APIs, GTFS/GTFS-RT pipelines
- Data & infra: Supabase, self-hosted Hetzner VPS (EasyPanel · Docker · Traefik), Netlify (frontend + serverless functions)
- AI: MCP servers, AI-assisted development workflows 💻
I've worked with brands 🤝 like Frase, Boutir, Häfele, and Moovit, bringing a content-marketing-meets-transit-tech perspective to user-centered solutions.
- 🌐 Main site: mynameisaliff.co.uk
- 🚌 Transit & travel tech: techmavie.digital
- 📲 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/hithereiamaliff
- 🧠 Hiring? Paste a job posting into my AI job-fit analyzer and see how I match, plus grab my CV as PDF, Word, or Markdown.
- 🙋🏻♂️ Enquiries: through my website