Summary
Daniel Ma is a pragmatic full-stack engineer with 11 years of experience who currently serves as Steward of Programmer Experience at The Swan Factory, driving testing and deployment improvements to accelerate product delivery. He's proven at rapidly learning new stacks—transitioning between Node.js/Coffeescript, Ruby on Rails, .NET, and PHP across roles—and often brought testing-first practices to teams, including teaching TDD and achieving a 1:1.4 code-to-test ratio on a Rails project. As a solo and lead developer he has shipped production features, built custom jQuery plugins, and refactored in-house JavaScript frameworks to be more testable. Daniel has a hands-on background in build tooling and automation (Gulp, Grunt, Mocha, Phantom) and acts as a resident Git expert who improves developer workflows. He also pairs web development with visual design experience from campus-wide projects, giving him an eye for usable interfaces as well as reliable back-end code. Colleagues rely on him to join late-stage projects, quickly tame technical debt, and turn ambiguous requirements into testable, deployable products.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of the Nations 2011