Summary
Emilie Ma is a distributed-systems engineer and researcher with seven years of experience building and benchmarking fault-tolerant infrastructure across industry and academia. She has shipped production-facing features and cost-saving platform libraries at Stripe and Cloudflare, and developed testing, shadowing, and load-testing tooling during an OpenAI internship. Her research work spans formally grounded system implementations and novel secure-decentralized protocols, including a Rust/Tauri libp2p prototype for E2EE key recovery she presented at FOSDEM 2025. Comfortable across Rust, Go, TypeScript and benchmarking ecosystems like YCSB, she also translates formal specifications (TLA+) into practical Rust libraries. Based in Vancouver and graduating top-of-class from UBC, she combines rigorous academic methods with a track record of measurable operational impact (e.g., multi-tenant DB cost reductions and major migrations with zero downtime).
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, 4.33/4.33, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science, 4.33/4.33 at The University of British Columbia
English, French, Chinese