Summary
Johnson Ma is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 12+ years building mobile and cloud communication platforms, best known for founding Easemob, a PaaS that delivers IM, voice and data services to mobile apps and attracted top-tier investors including Sequoia and Matrix. His engineering career spans deep telecom and mobile expertise from roles at Nokia, Symbian and Qualcomm to SOA and Eclipse contributions at IONA, giving him rare end-to-end insight into device, network and cloud stacks. Johnson’s team at Easemob focuses on extreme optimizations—battery, long connections, voice and security—to let developers add real-time features without reinventing the IM stack. Based in Beijing, he blends product-first entrepreneurship with a hacker’s background in C++/Java and open-source culture, having led cross‑continental R&D teams and shipped platform-level tooling used by mobile-first companies.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Huazhong University of Science and Technology