Dale Ma
Founder at Shorta AI
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolDale Ma is a founder and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-impact web products and developer tooling across startups and large tech organizations. He led engineering efforts at Meta delivering a code search and documentation platform used by tens of thousands of engineers, and before that built fintech and real-time analytics systems that improved performance and observability. Now focused on AI-first creative tooling, he founded Shorta (an AI producer that turns product URLs into ready-to-run short ads) and other ventures like Tabnora and Slime App that automate content creation workflows. A hands-on front-end contributor to notable open-source work such as mobiledoc-kit, he’s added lifecycle hooks and robust input handling to improve WYSIWYG editor behavior and test coverage. Dale combines product intuition with full-stack execution—shipping UI libraries, GraphQL/React systems, and AI integrations—while keeping a knack for turning messy data and patterns into repeatable, scalable features. Based in Greater Seattle with an electrical engineering background, he blends infrastructure pragmatism with creative product thinking.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering, B.S., Electrical Engineering at National Taipei University of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (9)
javascript10
wysiwyg10
html-editor10
event-handling10
gui-editor10
text-editor10
editor10
ckeditor10
testing10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
bustle/mobiledoc-kit
Jun 2016 - Sep 2016
A toolkit for building WYSIWYG editors with Mobiledoc
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 18 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Dale contributed significantly to the `mobiledoc-kit` project by implementing new features and improving existing functionalities related to text input handling and editor behavior. They added hooks for lifecycle events, including `willDelete` and `didDelete`, allowing for custom actions before and after deletion events. Furthermore, they implemented the ability to unregister individual or all text input handlers, increasing flexibility and control over the editor's behavior. They also added tests to ensure the correct functionality of added features.
mobiledocmobiledoc-kitjavascriptwysiwygwysiwyg-editor
eguitarz/p
May 2017 - Feb 2025
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 11 months
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