Maya Chandrasekaran, Director of Strategic Partnerships

Maya joined Babajob in July 2010. Most recently, she was with an urban MFI, Janalakshmi Financial Services Pvt. Ltd.. At Janalakshmi Maya was involved in treasury management, fund raising activities and product development. Prior to that, Maya worked with Capvent India Private Ltd., a private equity fund of funds. Her experience also includes stints at PricewaterhouseCoopers (M&A advisory) and Infosys Technologies (Corporate Planning).

Maya has a Bachelors degree in English Literature (Grinnell College, Iowa) and a JD in Media and Management (Syracuse University, NY). She loves to travel, read and watch foodshows on TV.

Shashi Singh, Developer

Shashi is a graduate in Electrical Engineering from Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal and started his career with Tesco HSC in Bangalore. At Tesco, intially he was part of the ITOF team, responsible for streamlining IT Services Management processes to suit the Tesco business and worked on projects for countries such as India, Thailand, Turkey, China, Japan, UK and US. During later part of his stint at Tesco, he moved into .NET development working on projects for India and UK. While in Tesco, he also won many awards including the Tesco Innovation Summit Award 09.

After 3 years at Tesco, he took the "leap of faith" to start Mauryan Web Solutions, a bootstrapped startup developing web products targeting consumers. As the sole full time founder of Mauryan Web, he was responsible for everything under the sun to take Catninja, Mauryan's flagship product for Indian MBA aspirants, from concept to launch. He continues to apply his lessons learned on this idea in his spare time.

He was also the brains behind swinefluindia.com, a popular informational website providing useful information on swine flu in India, which received a lot of positive coverage from the Indian press and accolades from Indians all over the world! He is passionate about ideas and their execution, technology and its impact on our lives and politics and world affairs. In his free time, he likes to listen to music, cook, chat with friends.

Pratik Mistri, Designer

At Babajob, I try to design fantastic UIs on the mobile and web for job seekers and employers to connect together.

I am also a B.Tech. Electronic and Communication graduate pursuing post graduate diploma in Design for Digital Experience at National Institute of Design, with 2 years of experience with TechMahindra Ltd.

In my free time you find me doing weird gestures in front of webcam, playing table tennis or indulged in discussion.

Vinay Vasant, Head of Employer Relations

At Babajob, I manage our call center, helping employers post their jobs on our site.

Prior to joining Babajob, I had worked in Banking & Media sectors (BCCL-Times Group, Citi group, Standard Chartered). I am from "God's own country"..Kerala and my family includes my parents & sister. As a person, I am quite jovial, fun-loving, passionate, focused, supportive and prefer to 'do things differently'. My passion is music..am a singer (sing for stage shows,karaoke shows & other events in the city) and a 'self-trained' guitarist & keyboard player. I am happy & proud to be part of the Babajob team..the environment is quite 'homely'. And it feels good to be able to make a change in the informal sector.

Yuvarani functions as data acquisition/entry personnel speaking to customers on a regular basis and inputting job information into our database. She completed her Diploma in computer Science, Tally and Busy Win (i.e. Accounting Software). Pior to this, she worked as an accountant for 4 years. She has 5 members in her family and her hobbies include "listening to melodious songs" and creative work.

Vinod Kumar, Customer Support Executive

In Vinod's words:
"I was born and brought up in near the Kolar Gold Field in Karnataka.
Prior to Babajob, I have worked as a Marketing Manager in Target Express for 2 years.
It has been a long journey with Babajob.com and this is my 3rd year with the firm. I am enjoying my work and the environment is absolutely homely."

Praveena Sridharan, Employer Relations Officer

I am a Bangalorean and have completed my graduation and diploma in computers. I have been with Babajob for 7 months as an Employer Relations Officer. Babajob has a very good work environment with good colleague and management. I am passionate, result oriented, articulate, flexible and hardworking person.

Denesh Kumar, Job Seeker Relationship Executive

I joined babajob in November of 2008 as a Field Marketing and Customer Relations Executive. I work closely with job seekers in registering their details on our database and communicating job details with them. I am an M.Sc (Psychology) graduate and have previously worked as a lecturer in Mayura College of Arts and Science in Bangalore. I am originally from Madurai, Tamil Nadu where my family including my father, a retired Army officer, my mother and 2 younger sisters continue to reside. I have a passion for learning and developing my knowledge which has lead me to pursue various certificates in 3D Animation in Maya Software, Bio Chemistry and Yoga. I primarily joined babajob because there is a "social service" element to the business - helping people get better jobs. I enjoy working at babajob and appreciate the company of colleagues who come from different backgrounds. I love to do Social Work, listen to music and love animals.

Tanya Singh, Fellow

Tanya is the newest and youngest member of Babajob, driving our social media and job seeker communications. In her words:

I am final year student of Mount Carmel College, and my subjects include Psychology, Economics and English. Apart from education (which is more of a compulsion than a passion) my interests are writing poetry, dreaming and being a person. I am incredibly shy, yet positive and I believe that learning is an irreplaceable experience, which truly enriches our life.

Seema Ramchandani, Technical Fellow

Seema's focus is to enable and mobilize communities through software. Currently, Seema is the Graphics and Performance PM on the Silverlight for Windows Phone in Redmond. Seema initially joined Microsoft in 2003 to design and build the Windows Presentation Foundation, and glass window manager introduced in Vista. Prior to her tenure at Microsoft, she did her Masters' research on brain-computer interfaces at Brown University.

Kenny Wolf and Lauren Lavoie, Technical Fellows

Kenny and Lauren are old friends of Sean's from Microsoft and generally amazing. They have worked tirelessly to help improve the quality of jobs sent to our job seekers. They currently travelling the world while checking-in code. We are terribly grateful to them.

Ira worked as the Managing Director of Babajob from its inception until April 2008, when he re-located back to the United States.

Prior to Babajob, Ira founded a variety of companies as an experienced entrepreneur over the last 25 years. In 1983, he and a fellow law school friend started 800-Software, one of the US's first mail order software companies, and the first to offer free technical support, toll free order lines, and shipment from an existing inventory.  When it was sold to Digital Equipment 10 years later, it was one of the nation's five largest software retailers, with offices throughout the US and annual sales of $180 million. Following 800-Software, Ira was president of Software Sciences in Eugene, Oregon which created and sold software for the residential real estate industry until his retirement in 1996. Prior to starting 800 Software he taught elementary school in California and Jakarta, Indonesia, practiced law in San Jose, California, worked as an adjunct faculty member at the USF School of Law and started a real estate foreclosure company. Ira holds a JD degree from USF, a Masters in Educational Administration from California State University at San Francisco and a bachelor's degree from University of California at Santa Cruz. 

Ash is the CEO of Mapunity.in, where, in his words, his job "lets him explore many ways in which technology can help meet the challenges posed by social problems, and act as an evangelist for some of those things to happen." Ashwin also co-edits the public affairs magazine, India Together, and is on the Visiting Faculty at IIM Bangalore's Centre for Public Policy.  He happens to have a PhD in climatology and once ran laser satellites over Antarctica for NASA as well.

Prior to Babajob.com, Vibhore worked as a developer for Microsoft Research India on a variety of projects including Virtual India (virtualindia.msresearch.in) and the MSRIndia SMS Server (www.codeplex.com/smstoolkit). Before joining MSR, he was the founding member of several other companies including ROS, which built Linux based OSs for mobile phones. Vibhore's areas of interest include Security & Networking and he holds a B. Tech. + M. Tech. in Electrical Engg. from IIT Bombay.