The people behind FORGE.

Engineers, researchers, designers and governance leads. Based in Singapore, deployed across six ASEAN markets. Same names on the call sheet from ASSESS to OPERATE.

How we hire

We hire for shipped systems, not certifications.

Every engineer on the EIS roster has operated a production system at scale — usually somewhere they wished they’d had us. We don’t run a graduate programme yet. We don’t take on people who haven’t owned a page. The bar is high because the work is high-stakes — there’s a regulator at the end of every project, and our names are on the runbook.

Production-grade by default.
Median time in industry is 9 years. Every senior has shipped at least one system serving more than a million users. We’ve all answered pages.
Generalists, then specialists.
Every engineer can read across the stack — from a Terraform module to a transformer. Specialism stacks on top, never replaces it.
Regional fluency.
Mandarin, Bahasa, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Thai across the team. PDPA, OJK, BNM, BSP and BoT in the paperwork. We meet clients in their regulator’s language.
Principals

The people you’ll work with.

Every engagement is led by a named principal who stays on through OPERATE. No partner-and-pyramid model. The person who scoped your project is the person on your weekly architecture review.

Founder ·Chief Executive Officer

Azhar A. Malik

Founded EIS to close the gap between AI strategy and production engineering. 15+ years building enterprise systems across ASEAN. Speaker at GITEX, AI practitioner, and architect of the FORGE methodology.
   

Director, Business Development AIPAC

Richard Chan

Drives business growth across the Asia-Pacific region, connecting enterprise clients with the right AI solutions.
   

Director, Business Development

Kenneth Reilly

Builds strategic partnerships and expands EIS's reach across new markets and verticals.

Chief Operations Officer

Habeeb Mustafa

Ensures operational excellence across all FORGE engagements, from delivery to client success.

Director, Business Development Middle East

Khalid Imtiaz

Leads EIS's expansion into the Middle East, connecting regional enterprises with AI-native engineering.
   

Chief Technology Officer

Shafiq Ur Rehman

Architects the technical vision behind FORGE and leads engineering across all EIS products and platforms.
   

Product Developer

Prakash Mathur

Builds and ships EIS products from concept to production, turning AI capabilities into tools teams use daily.
   

Lead AI Engineer

Hamid Nawaz

Engineers production AI systems — from RAG pipelines to agentic workflows — across EIS client engagements.
   

The bench

The shape of the studio.

Forty-four engineers, designers and governance leads as of Q2 2026. Built deliberately — every hire vetoed by the principal they’d report to and the principal they’d partner with.

44 engineers, designers, governance leads.
18 AI engineers — pair-agent and production patterns.
9 platform engineers — infra, deploy, observability.
6 governance leads — AI Verify, MAS FEAT, regional.
5 designers — operator UIs, decision interfaces.
6 strategy and academy — ASSESS leads and curriculum.
How we work

Pods of three. Embedded, not airdropped.

The default unit is a pod — one principal, one senior engineer and one specialist (governance, design, voice, depending on the phase). Pods sit in your Slack, your repos and your stand-ups. They join your code reviews. They get the same incident pages your team does.

Same names from ASSESS through OPERATE — no partner-and-pyramid handoff
Pod size scales by phase, but the principal is constant
On-call rotation shared with your platform team from BUILD onward
Weekly architecture reviews, monthly written summaries, quarterly governance readouts
All work happens in your repos under your reviewable history
Where to next

Want to join, or hire us?

Open roles in Singapore
 Six roles, named principal interviews, two-week process.
Why EIS
 What we promise to ship and to stay for.
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