She runs her own software development company ('Nyanko') together with her good friend Trevor Purdy, where she works on various game development projects and also some non-game projects. She also does various freelance jobs for companies around the globe. Beyond writing software, she like to play with equations and write novels, such as her awesome re-imagining of the story of the Nintendo classic Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and the survival-horror novel she recently started titled Viral Desire. Another major topic of interest for Maya is that of biochemistry, robotics and the reverse-engineering of the human body.