Our Process
Our Advantage
Our team comprises of people with outstanding computer science and business backgrounds, with work experience at some of the best companies in the world. All of our developers hold Computer Science or Engineering degrees from top universities. In addition, our developers are Microsoft certified in areas such as Microsoft SQL Server 2012, SharePoint 2013, and HTML5. All team members hold Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) or Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) certification for .NET.
Close Relationship with Microsoft
Silver Certified Partner represents key level of competence and expertise with Microsoft technologies, and shows a close working relationship with Microsoft.
Microsoft Preferred Vendors are a select group of companies authorized to perform services directly for the Microsoft Corporation.
To be part of the program, vendors must maintain a high level of performance and are continuously evaluated in three major areas: cost, quality, and delivery.
MAQ Software was certified ISO 27001:2005 by British Standards Institution.
ISO 27001 standards, the only auditable international standard, provides an ISMS model for adequate and proportionate security controls to protect information assets.
In 2012, MAQ Software was ranked as one of the fastest going private companies in America for six years in a row.
With this accomplishment, MAQ Software joined the rarified company of enterprises who have appeared on the list multiple times.
For more than 30 years, Inc.’s list has served as evidence of the significant accomplishments of enterprises such as Intuit, Zappos, Under Armour, Microsoft, Jamba Juice, Timberland, Visa, Clif Bar, Patagonia and Oracle.
MAQ Software is a preferred vendor for Microsoft since 2005. This confirms Microsoft’s trust in our quality and delivery model.
MAQ Software was certified SEI CMMI Level 3 by QAI India.
At Level 3, defined and documented standard processes are established and subject to some degree of improvement over time. These standard processes are used to establish consistency of process performance across the organization.
MAQ Software is recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in Washington State for five consecutive years. (To make the Puget Sound Business Journal’s list of 100 Fastest-Growing Private Companies, a company must have achieved rapid growth for three years)
MAQ Software is also featured in the Hall of Fame. (For companies that have made to the list four or more years, the Business Journal acknowledges by adding them to the Hall of Fame)
As the founder and the managing consultant of MAQ Software, Rajeev works with customers
to plan and develop innovative applications on various technology platforms. Prior
to founding MAQ Software, Rajeev worked at Microsoft Corporation in several product
management groups including Visual C++, Microsoft Windows NT and Microsoft Exchange
Server. His responsibilities included product planning, marketing strategy and execution
of Web based programs to reach customers worldwide.
Rajeev holds a B. Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Kharagpur, a Master's in Engineering from Iowa State University,
and an MBA from the University of Michigan Business School, Ann Arbor.
Rajeev has been widely quoted on software industry issues in the media including
the Seattle Times, Puget Sound Business Journal and BBC.
E-mail Rajeev if you would like to contact him.
Dilip has 18 years of professional software experience on three continents, with
over twelve years of that at Microsoft Corporation. At Microsoft, Dilip played a
vital role in the biggest consumer product launch in the company's 26 year history
- the Xbox. Dilip also served as a Senior Development Engineer in the Exchange,
LAN Manager, and Windows for Workgroups product teams and worked as a Program Manager
for the System Management Server (SMS) development group.
Dilip has a deep understanding of software development and a broad range of technologies.
He has a number of patents to his credit. He is author of several books including
Inside Windows Storage published in 2003 by Addison Wesley.
Dilip holds a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of
Technology, Bombay, and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE).
Arpita brings strong program management and software development experience from
her six years at Microsoft Corporation. While at Microsoft, her primary focus was
on database technologies and building database applications. She played a key role
in shipping both internal and external Microsoft products.
Most recently, Arpita led the effort to implement SAP Data Warehousing technology
used by Corporate Procurement for vendor analysis and reporting. She was the Development
Lead of a team that developed, configured, and deployed the SAP Business Warehouse
on SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000 worldwide.
As a Program Manager in the database group, she and her team improved the performance
of Universal Database Access technologies (ADO, OLEDB, ODBC) on Microsoft platforms.
She gathered performance information and requirements from internal and external
customers, analyzed performance issues, resolved the problems and drove the integration
of solutions into the product.
She started her career at Microsoft by assisting developers and testers to implement
and use internal tools for bug tracking and management. She also managed and supported
code profilers to enhance productivity and performance of Microsoft software.
Arpita did her undergraduate work in Architecture from the Academy of Architecture,
Bombay and earned a Master of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from
Eastern Michigan University. Arpita also did graduate work at the University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor.
