Founder · CEO
Amara Chen
18 years across Stripe, Grab and a regional bank. Architected three regulator-facing AI systems before founding EIS.
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.
Co-founder · Engineering
Devan Reyes
Ex-Meta infra. Built the platform that runs every EIS engagement. Owns the FORGE phase gates.
Head of Design
Mira Osei
Designed the operator UIs for two AML platforms. Quietly insists every model has a person at the other end.
Head of Voice AI
Kenji Park
Speech research at NTU and a stint at Sony. Leads Voice AI, Call.SG and the language work across ASEAN.
Head of Governance
Rafi Hasan
Former MAS supervisor. Wrote our AI Verify mapping and most of the policy library.
Principal Engineer
Lin Wei
Distributed systems lead. Owns the platform engineering practice and the worst on-call shift.
AI Academy Lead
Siti Aminah
Curriculum lead. Took 22 telco engineers from divergent RAG to one shared playbook in a single quarter.
Head of Client Strategy
Daniel Tan
ASSESS lead. Has walked away from more engagements than he’s signed — usually correctly.
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.
Book a 30-minute session → The first call is with the principal you’d work with.
Meet the principal who’d lead your engagement.
No SDR, no pre-screening call. The first 30 minutes are with the principal you’d actually work with.
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