Summary
Can Ma is a senior engineer based in Beijing with 17 years of experience building distributed systems and storage software. He is the author of Pomegranate, a lightweight distributed file and key/value store, reflecting deep hands-on expertise in storage architecture and systems programming. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Architecture from the Institute of Computing Technology (CAS), he combines academic rigor with long-term applied engineering at the Institute of Information Engineering, CAS. His work emphasizes compact, efficient designs—favoring tiny, robust components over monolithic solutions—which makes him adept at solving real-world performance and reliability challenges. Colleagues know him for translating research insights into production-ready systems that scale.
17 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Architecture, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Architecture at Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at Nankai University