Jay Ma
Fixing Bugs at Work Trial AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJay Ma is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with 11 years building production ML systems and low-latency services across startups and big tech in the San Francisco Bay Area. As Co-Founder and CTO of Final Round AI and current engineering lead roles at Work Trial AI and Hellyeah AI, he blends hands-on systems work with product-driven AI shipping. His background spans machine learning at Pinterest and Facebook to performance-sensitive engineering at Trade Terminal and AMD, including microsecond-level orderbook services and real-time monitoring platforms. Jay moves fluidly between front-end, back-end, and ML stacks—shipping end-to-end features from UI/SEO-optimized landing pages to Go-based data pipelines and WebSocket-driven dashboards. He holds advanced CS training from UIUC and Purdue and pairs academic rigor with a founder’s bias for rapid iteration. Notably, his career emphasizes building practical evaluation and hiring products that assess people by work, not interviews.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Summer Session C Computer Science, Summer Session C Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyNanodegree Machine Learning Engineer, Nanodegree Machine Learning Engineer at UdacityBachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignHigh School, High School at Beijing No.101 High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (113)
python10
pinescript10
trading10
data-interchange10
trading-bot10
protoc10
automated-trading10
stable-baselines10
sec10
marshalling10
protocol-buffers10
openai-gym10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
forex10
protobuf10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
doudoujay/cs180
Jan 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years
doudoujay/cs180-project4
Mar 2017 - Dec 2020
Contributions:2 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
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