Robin Chung

Hi there, I am Robin Chung. I have been a developer and designer all my life and have worked for many clients, both big and small. Today I help ASML in Veldhoven and actively maintain the Luci app. Read on if you are interested in how I got here.

My passion for development really came from my excitement about technology and how it changes the way we interact with the world around us. When I was little, I remember sitting on a stone ledge, playing with friends on the playground. In between playing ball and hiding as if our lives depended on it, we traded Pokémon on the Game Boy Color. We shared our progress with the little monsters we had caught and trained since the last time we saw each other, flexing that we had caught Mewtwo or had a level 70 Charizard. Like most memories, it still feels perfect to this day.

Then the camera came to the phone, a 0.1 MP camera on a flip phone, and it was a life-changer. I remember researching the three models available: a Sharp, a Panasonic and a Nokia. Once I got my first one, I started freezing memories. The opportunity to travel back in time and relive my favorite moments through a "photo" felt amazing to me.

Of course, when Apple announced the iPhone in 2007, everything changed again. This hobby of mine that had been growing beneath the surface, development and design, suddenly landed in my pocket, and I was fascinated by all the apps that became available shortly after.

Fast forward to today, and I have become a software engineer. And I love it! Solving a puzzle for someone by writing a few lines of code is special. To this day, being able to create whatever my mind comes up with feels amazing to me.

But all this tech certainly has downsides. Seeing people with bent necks navigating the world around them. Seeing yet another "just one more scroll" post. People lost in AI-generated feeds, responding to whatever the algorithm feeds them, questioning what is real. Or even worse, never questioning any of it.

It is surely a side effect of a generation growing up without the luxury I experienced as a kid. Those moments in between catching Pokémon were important: they allowed my brain, as a millennial, to soak up the information it gathered and give it a time and place.

As a person, I have always wanted to leave more value behind in my lifetime than I take, and so I developed Luci: to combat the challenges a new generation faces with technology. Because I genuinely believe we want and need this technology, just not in a way that fights our biological systems and causes mental strain.

With Luci, I hope to bridge the gap between lifestyle and mental health. I am not a psychologist, but I have a passion for the mind and have studied a lot of research papers. So I wanted to offer a way to help spot mood patterns, and also to teach anyone who wants to learn about the mind. Knowing why you feel a certain way goes a long way toward making changes that fit you: your lifestyle and your needs. I will consider it a success if it helps even a single person.

These days, I am sometimes available for clients as a developer or project/product manager. I also do one-off sessions, such as workshops and conference talks.

Please reach out if you want to get in touch! I would love to hear your story.