About us
Who is behind Wadaya, and the standard we run it to.
- Last updated
- 2 August 2026
Our founding story
How pharmaceutical storage in Sichuan and data storage in Silicon Valley shaped the standard behind Wadaya.
I grew up around storage — the kind where mistakes are not allowed. For decades, my family's business in Sichuan, China has held one of the most unforgiving jobs in storage. The business keeps medicine safe for pharmaceutical companies like Sinopharm. That is the kind of client you only keep by never making a mistake. A few degrees of temperature drift can ruin a shipment that patients are waiting for. But what I remember most is the urgent calls. When a hospital needed medicine now, my family didn't dispatch a driver. They went themselves. Whatever they were doing stopped. In that world, reliability isn't a slogan. It's the whole job.
My own career stayed in storage — just a different kind. I had the honor of joining the ZFS team at Oracle in Silicon Valley, after getting my computer science degree from Purdue University. ZFS is the storage system most of the Fortune 100 rely on for their data, including four of the world's five largest banks. Those years taught me the professionalism I bring to everything I do. It is the kind that a trillion transactions run on. It is the kind that can't afford to ever lose anything customers entrust to you.
Wadaya is those two worlds put together. Bahrain is full of homes and businesses that need extra space. But I couldn't find a storage brand here built to the standard I was raised on. So I came to build one, together with people who have spent years running storage far more demanding than furniture and boxes.
Honestly, keeping your belongings safe, clean, and exactly as you left them is a simpler job than storing medicine or a company's data. That's the point. We bring the same discipline, the same integrity, the same professionalism. And we add the convenience of modern software, so renting a unit takes minutes, not paperwork.
That's Wadaya: professional-grade care for everyday things.
— Xin Chen, Founder
What you can expect from us
These principles guide how we run Wadaya, make decisions, and serve you.
Integrity
When doing right by you takes more than what is written down, we do that too. We look at things from your side, and we honor the trust you place in us. When we get something wrong, we own it and fix it.
Transparency
Our prices, our rental process and our terms are all on the site. You can read every one of them before you rent.
Professionalism
Storing your belongings is a responsibility we take seriously. We keep the facility to a high standard of cleanliness and maintain its climate-control, surveillance, and other essential systems with care. When a problem arises, we address it as quickly as we can and see it through until it is resolved.
Technology that helps
We use technology to save you time, reduce paperwork, and make information easy to find. It should never become a barrier between you and us. When you need help, you should be able to reach someone from our team.
You can reach me
You can contact me directly, any time.
I built Wadaya around the standards on this page, and I want to hear how we are doing against them.
For everyday help, our team is usually the fastest route. For anything you want the founder to see, email me directly at xin.chen@wadayaselfstorage.com.
Your message comes to me, and I read it personally.