OUR TEAM
Some of the Brightest Minds in Tech
Jigish Chawda
Jigish is a Software Consultant by profession. He has worked across a range of businesses in domains like Travel, Banking, Customer Services and Home Automation. He brings with him an experience of helping teams apply Agile methodologies and development practices like TDD, Pair Programming, and Continuous Integration. Additionally, Jigish has acquired extensive technical experience in mobile application development, successfully delivering enterprise projects to production. His penchant for exploring new frameworks, development paradigms or non-technical stuff allows him to share the knowledge through global tech conferences and conduct boot camps.
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His non-working hours are occupied with reading, travelling, trekking, indoor and outdoor climbing, practising Yoga and of course, lots of good sleep.
Currently, his areas of learning are containers (LXC), protobuf and grpc.
Yoga Master
George Ie
George is an industry veteran with over 25 years of experience working in leading global technologies companies and with many industry verticals. He was active in IT planning, consulting, project delivery and business development roles across the Asia Pacific and Australia. He brings with him a wealth of domain and IT experience working with top companies around the world.
George is always keen to explore new stuff and loves good food, rock music, travelling and playing with his kids. He loves to push his limits, which includes his car tires vs roads/corners, and chasing younger players around the soccer pitch while avoiding heart attacks. Still a fan of sci-fi, fantasy and comedy movies, he is currently struggling to beat his son on the PlayStation!
Tribal Chief
Michelle Ie
Michelle has learnt much under the wings of Mavericks. She looks forward to her next assignments and might just have grown to be a bit of a workaholic!
At times, Michelle can be highly competitive, especially in games with her family. She loves watching anime, reading books and listening to music from a variety of genres. Michelle is also a devout follower of the mala trend, loving all things that add some spice to her life!
Mich Marvel
Ashish Pundalik
A seasoned full-stack developer, Ashish combines his hands-on development expertise with his passion for Agile best practices to partner with clients in creating superior business value.
He has extensive experience working with large multinationals spanning business domains such as banking, e-retail, management consultancies and gaming. He brings a full range of on-shore and off-shore experience, guiding the development of holistic IT solutions right from inception to deployment.
He is an active advocate of Agile methodology and guides teams in implementing development best practices. He is also actively involved in spearheading community meet-ups and other knowledge-sharing forums.
Ashish is a passionate biker who combines his love for motorcycles and adventures to explore new places. He is also a snooker enthusiast, experimental cook, gamer and dog lover.
The Disruptor
Chelsea Li
Chelsea is always keen to learn and understand more in order to improve herself and be a good team player. Her determination to do well helps her as she takes on new challenges here at Mavericks.
Outside of work, she loves relaxing at the beach and spending time with loved ones. She is also passionate about dance, always eager to try out new styles and genres for fun.
Tiny Dancer
Afiqah
Afiqah is a keen and enthusiastic learner who plans to pick up as many new skills as she can during her time at Mavericks. She aims to improve herself and contribute as much as she can to the team.
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She enjoys exploring new things and games on the internet, and you would almost always see her either browsing through Reddit, or playing a new game. She is also a massive movie enthusiast, and would gladly spend her weekends huddled over her computer, watching a horror movie or exploring the MCU.
Pika
Julia Ong
Julia is keen and determined to learn as much as possible during her time with Mavericks. An eager learner, she is excited to broaden her knowledge as she interacts with and learns from the people she meets.
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In her free time, Julia enjoys binge-watching Korean dramas and occasionally practices embroidery. She aspires to pick up new languages such as Malay and Cantonese, and she regularly engages in volunteer work with children.
Juice
Ryan Yeo
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Ryan is an ex-soldier turned developer with a passion for using technology to make a positive impact on someone's life. At Mavericks, he hopes to learn, innovate and captivate through the beauty of technology.
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In Ryan's free time, he would either be working out at the gym alone or hanging out (usually with a glass of ice-cold beer at hand) with his friends.
Ryzen
Abhinav Sagar
Abhinav is a product management professional with more than 10 years’ experience as part of product teams in the areas of Healthcare, Payments, Billing and Enterprise Communication.
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He is proficient in defining product strategy, detailing product requirements, identifying user needs through extensive market research & analytics, maintaining comprehensive product backlogs, and ensuring that the product vision is clearly translated to all the stakeholders, including engineering and design teams. He has worked in Agile – Scrum, Kanban, XP and Waterfall methodologies, but prefers using a hybrid approach to ensure quick and successful software delivery.
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When he is not working – he is mostly spending time with his son, reading a book on his Kindle, playing FIFA or binge-watching something on Netflix with his wife.
The Dark Horse
Lynette Chong
Lynette is a keen learner who is always up for a challenge and seeks to grow as much as she can whilst with Mavericks. A team player with a bubbly personality, she constantly aims to bring sunshine into her work environment and work well with others.
Outside of work, Lynette spends her free time stalking dogs and eating. She also enjoys the occasional good read, making coffee and spending time with her friends and family.
Lynks
Master Shifu
Ramesh Baskara Subramanian
Ramesh is a seasoned Quality Advocate with over 17 years of experience spanning across different domains. He is passionate about Agile methodologies and believes in cross-functional collaboration to be the key to successful software development. During his career, he has also played the roles of Delivery Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coach helping several enterprises embrace Agile and Lean practices.
Ramesh loves vegetarian food and always joins his wife in cooking different recipes when possible. He likes to read up on bikes and cars from around the world and enjoys traveling. He loves listening and singing Tamil retro music. A big fan of comedy movies, he often ends up hurting himself laughing out loud!!
Kenneth Yeong
Kenneth is a software developer and avid follower of Economics and financial new of the world. Kenneth loves getting lost on a holiday because that gives him a chance to talk to the locals and understand the culture and personality of the local population. Kenneth's idea of a holiday involves going on a road trip for rock climbing with a tent to sleep in and the excitement of making a few friends along the way!
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Apart from that Kenneth loves to work and likes trying out new language and framework and patting dogs.
Duck Dodgers MER-B
Alien-a
Alyna Tan
Alyna has a passion for gaining new knowledge. She wishes to better herself and grow under the guidance in Maverick. Being a committed individual, she is willing to face any obstacles and challenges.
During her spare time, she likes to perform alongside external orchestras and does community services with different organisations.
Lock
Tsoi Lok Yin
Lok Yin had previously been working on systems in the public sector as well as the aviation industry, bringing enhancements from the conceptual stage to deployment to maintenance. If you ask what is the most important thing she has learnt so far, it's that there is always something new to learn! Currently, she is seeking new challenges in her role at Mavericks and hopes to develop her competencies both professionally and personally.
During her spare time, you may spot her attempting to walk across Singapore or in one of the many parks and trails (sometimes armed with a camera and tripod). Otherwise, she is crafting projects with a newly discovered form of handicraft or looking out for new places to satisfy her stomach.
Dee
Denise Mayores
Denise is a driven and eager individual who is always ready to learn and constantly aims to improve herself. At Mavericks, she is determined to grow and develop her skills under the guidance of her coworkers and mentors. A strong believer in active learning, she broadens her knowledge with personal projects, competitions and extra-curricular courses.
In her free time, Denise enjoys working out, cuddling with her dog and bonding with family and friends. She also loves travelling, going to concerts (she even caught Ed Sheeran’s guitar pick in one of his concerts) and actively playing sports, where she has competed in several national school hockey competitions.
Ah Si
Cecilia Lee
Cecilia is a keen learner with an avid desire to constant question the workings of systems around her to make them better. Her inquisitive nature along with her passion for good challengers help her persevere through any problems that come her way.
During her free time, you will spot Cecilia with the love of her life - football or see her attempting new sports with her friends.
Never one to shy away opportunities to serve, she always volunteers for religious organisations and organises many events that enthuse her soul.
Shu Lin Chua
Forest Chua
Shu Lin is a motivated and organised worker who constantly seeks to attain knowledge.
As she is a homebody, she loves spending free time cooping herself at home; watching movies, reading, (rarely)exercising etc. and leaves home only if she needs to. Also, Shu Lin enjoys all kinds of food and is constantly on a hunt to look for new cuisines to try and food to eat in the middle of the night as the Mukbang videos are too tempting.
As a fellow Middle Child, she believes that she had never felt the Middle Child syndrome and instead loves and appreciates the companion of both her sisters whenever they are all home together.
Charmaine Chan
Charmine loves to pick up new and relevant skills and is eager to grow with Mavericks. She strives to learn from and with people around her and puts in consistent efforts. She aims to be cheerful always to make a positive impact on those around her.
She games (especially Overwatch) and loves to play with her dog in her free time. She always watches a lot of dramas (Korean, Japanese, Chinese and American) to destress from work. Her favourite foods include anything potato and she is up for hotpot sessions anytime!
Charms
Han Xin Yong
Han Xin is a convivial spirit with a heart for people and an appetite for hard work. With a diverse background in consulting and retail management, she brings with her a strong resolve to bettering herself for others whilst serving the Mavericks team.
In her spare time, Han Xin immerses herself in wellness routines like yoga and resistance training. She also enjoys unwinding/exerting her creativity through eating, cooking, dancing, and painting - in that order.
Han Solo