Meet The Team
Rallied behind the common purpose of helping creators and businesses build and own their communities, the Genesiv team continues to push the boundaries on what is possible in the world of community building platforms.
Andrew Leong
COO
About
Andrew holds a bachelors in Information Systems. He brings balance to the dynamic brother tag team. If Desmond is the visionary, then Andrew is the integrator. He works tirelessly in ensuring the company is ticking like clockwork – with his focus on IT, operations, compliance, finance and legal.
Fun Fact:
Andrew is often on his next food hunt. His love for food and wine has brought him to many countries in search for the best food (pre-covid).
Desmond Leong
CEO
About
Desmond’s obsession with community and communication structures started when he tried to teach people how to trade. After trying every application out there, he figured the only way to do it was to build one himself. Drawing from his experience conducting over 300 webinars and speaking to over 80,000 traders, he started building Genesiv using the profits he generated from his award-winning investment research firm.
His unique advantage comes from his experience building a business and working with the largest bizdev, marketing, and compliance departments – where he learned that a community platform has to strike a balance between what the users want and what the businesses, creators, and entrepreneurs want.
Fun Fact:
Desmond is a football addict and plays Fifa all the time – consistently being placed in Division 1 for the past 10 releases. If you’re into Fifa, hit him up at his PSN leahdacat (yes, Leah is his cat he uses to maul his opponents)
Rob Gudipudi
CTO
About
Rob has over 15 years of experience as a full-stack developer. He previously worked at IBM, Mahindra Satyam, GAP and PEGA Systems. He has been working with Desmond for over 5 years and is instrumental in both the planning and building of the Genesiv product.
At IBM, he was instrumental in large global scale ERP implementation for pharmaceutical giants such as Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca, Merck. At Manhindra Satyam, he rose up the ranks quickly to lead a multi faceted 80 member team to support and roll out telecom software.
He has managed global teams across India, USA, China, and UK on various ERP retail and financial systems design + implementation for GAP, PEGA Systems and several other global enterprises.
Fun Fact:
In his free time, Rob enjoys spending time with his family, cooking for them and singing, although he admits not everyone enjoys his singing.
Mike
DEV
About
Mike is a music teacher with a passion for sound engineering, music production, and guitar luthiery. He loves connecting with his fellow musicians and coaching his young students to help them get to where they want to be. Mike enjoys any kind of hands-on project that requires creative troubleshooting and prefers to see immediate, tangible results. Nowadays, with his artistic skills as his anchor, he has begun venturing into the sea of web development.
Fun Fact:
Mike used to be miserable but ever since his ducks adopted him, everything’s coming up quacky!
Jia Xuan
UI UX
About
Jia Xuan is a fun-loving designer who enjoys uncovering life’s opportunities — always trying to live life to the fullest by experiencing new hobbies, places, and food! She often tries hard unsuccessfully to hide her love for alcohol.
Fun Fact:
Jia Xuan loves Snowball from the movie, ‘The Secret Life of Pets”!
Saiful
DEV
About
Friends call him “Cousin Itt” from The Addams Family because his face is 80% hair. He previously worked in electrical engineering until he decided to live in ‘hard’ mode. He quit his already stable job in the middle of the pandemic to pursue his passion for coding.
Fun Fact:
Saif is always ‘randomly’ checked in all airports somehow… He’s better than Desmond at Fifa, but don’t tell Des that 😉
Tanya
Marketing
About
Tanya is a creator, a hard worker, and everything in between! She thrives in creative environments and loves mixing work and fun! The only things on her mind at any given time is food, her puppy (who is 5 years old, but will always be a puppy to her), and whatever song is stuck in her head at the moment.
Fun Fact:
Tanya ate a tarantula once as a dare. She describes the worst part about it as being the hair and the texture as it broke apart in her mouth!
Angelika
UI UX
About
Angelika, called ‘Gelly’ by her co-workers, was a software engineer for 4 years before she decided to make a career switch during the pandemic, motivated by a peek into the world of UI/UX. Now she spends her days happily designing screens, creating prototypes, and picking fonts and colors (She’s always indecisive, it’s a real struggle!). Besides that, she also loves brainstorming on ways to help improve workflows and user experiences! During her free time, she likes to give her cat lots of death hugs, pats, and belly rubs. Oh! She also partakes in the appreciation of chonks and puns.
Fun Fact:
Asni
UI UX
About
Asni is a designer who loves traveling and learning about different cultures, appreciating how they approach problems in different ways. She enjoys going to non-English speaking events and experiencing what it’s like to connect without words.
Fun Fact:
Asni speaks 5 different languages including ASL, and is also a huge cat-lover!
Shubham
Dev
About
Shubam got into software engineering because of his love for video games. They thought that becoming a software engineer would mean his parents would have to get him a computer to play games on! That’s where the fantasy ended for a young Shubam, though. Now, he has grown to love programming! He also loves playing sports in his free time.
Fun Fact:
Shubam believes laughing is the best medicine and loves making the people around him laugh!
Prakhar
Dev
About
Prakhar is an experienced full-stack developer who constantly seeks out innovative solutions to everyday problems. He is a team player who takes pride in his analytical thinking and collaboration skills. Prakhar loves video games, especially PUBG: Battlegrounds, hit him up if you’re into Battle Royales!
Fun Fact:
Prakhar is a food connoisseur who’s always seeking out new food experiences. He is a fan of all good eats from street foods, to fine dining.
Asni
UI UX
About
Desmond’s obsession with community and communication structures started when he tried to teach people how to trade. After trying out every application out there, he figured the only way to do it was to build one himself. Drawing from his experience conducting over 300 webinars and speaking to over 80,000 traders (via webinars and seminars), he started building Genesiv using the profits he generated from his award-winning investment research firm.
