Cody Ma
Software Engineer at Persona
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCody Ma is a Software Engineer with a decade of experience building resilient backend systems and developer tooling, currently at Persona where he has worked across platform products, KYB, and AI agents. He previously shaped payments and VOD infrastructure at Twitch and has roots in systems administration and teaching from his time at Brown University. Cody contributes to blockchain tooling—improving database migration and build processes on the IoTeX core project—demonstrating a focus on operational robustness and developer experience. Comfortable across Go, DevOps, and infrastructure, he blends low-level systems thinking with product-oriented engineering. Based in New York, he approaches design by probing fundamental elements and composition, aiming to abstract repeatable, reliable patterns into production systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Brown University
English, Chinese, French
Github Skills (18)
distributed-systems10
go10
blockchain10
devops9
shell8
sh8
cryptography8
script8
scripting8
command-line7
command-line-interface7
automation7
cli7
automations7
docker6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
iotexproject/iotex-core
Feb 2020 - Mar 2021
Official implementation of IoTeX blockchain protocol in Go. An ultra-efficient EVM blockchain offering 1000 TPS with instant 1-block finality. Perfect for DeFi, DePIN tokenomics, Identities, and any trusted logic requiring Web3 composability
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 2 reviews, 12 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Cody primarily contributed to the project's infrastructure and build processes, as seen in the addition of a migration tool for the database. Their work included implementing commands for checking database file heights and migrating blockchain data. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the build scripts for the CLI tools, highlighting a focus on streamlining the development environment and MacOS installation. These changes indicate a strong involvement in maintaining and enhancing the project's operational aspects.
internet-of-trusted-thingscryptographymachinefigolangconsensus
Madongming/resource-tree
Jul 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:28 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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