The Team

We are Development Maestros. We are development tooling experts who continuously innovate to make development teams efficient. And we love to add enjoyment to the craft.

The MaestroDev team is a division of G2iX, which provides a complete innovation platform that includes the award-winning engineering team, world-class open source engineering tooling, market-leading open source applications, and state-of-the-art cloud computing infrastructure.

Brett Porter

VP for Product Development

Brett Porter champions G2iX's effort in developing software development automation tools. Prior to joining the G2iX team, Brett has held positions as Vice President of Engineering of DevZuz, and as a Team Lead and Architect at Fairfax Digital. Brett is a Director and Member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been heavily involved in several open source projects since joining the Apache Maven project in 2003. He is currently a member of the Project Management Committee (PMC) for Apache Archiva, Apache Continuum, Apache Maven, and several other Apache projects. Brett is the co-author of "Better Builds with Maven", the first book about Maven 2. He is also the co-author of the Maven best practice by example book, "Effective Apache Maven 2".

Carlos Sanchez

Senior Solutions Architect

Carlos Sanchez has been involved in Open Source for nearly ten years. He has specialized in solving business challenges in a wide variety of industries, including e-commerce, financial services, telecommunications, and software development. A member of the Apache Maven PMC, Carlos is one of the maintainers of the central Maven repository and a co-author of the "Better Builds with Maven" book.

Wendy Smoak

Senior Solutions Architect

Wendy Smoak is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and a committer on several projects, where she focuses on user support, documentation, and infrastructure. Her work centers around enterprise adoption of Apache Maven and related technologies.

Maria Odea Ching

Senior Software Engineer

Maria Odea Ching has been a committer at the Apache Software Foundation since 2006. She is currently serving as chair of the Apache Archiva Project Management Committee (PMC) and is also involved in the Apache Continuum and Apache Maven projects. Deng is the co-author of the Maven best practice by example book, "Effective Apache Maven 2".

Henry Isidro

Engineering Director

Henry has been with the team since 2005 as a Development Manager. He also was Team Lead of the Maestro development team in 2007. Henry is currently a committer for Redback at Codehaus and contributor to projects like Apache Maven, Apache Archiva, and Apache Continuum.

Joseph Ybanez

QA Director

Joseph has been leading the QA team since 2007. He has been engaged in numerous projects ranging from Finance & Investment to Manufacturing & Airlines. As QA Director, he coordinates the testing effort ensuring that quality assurance best practices are followed.

Aaron Tinio

QA Team Lead

Aaron specializes on test automation using Selenium and Ruby. He is a contributor to the Selenium-Client Project, the official Ruby client API for Selenium Remote Control.