Jonathan Ma
Teaching Assistant at Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolJonathan Ma is an embedded software engineer and Cornell CS senior with a decade of hands-on experience building flight-critical systems, cloud-native backends, and developer tools for aerospace and autonomous platforms. He’s led flight software for a CubeSat mission, wrote memory-constrained C++ drivers for GPS/IMU/LoRa peripherals, and built a full-stack ground station with Elasticsearch dashboards, showing comfort across embedded hardware and web backends. Internships at SpaceX, Collins Aerospace, JHU APL, and NVIDIA underscore a consistent focus on mission readiness, hardware-in-the-loop testing, and scalable tooling. An active open-source contributor, he has improved stability and async operations in high-profile Kubernetes SIG projects like cluster-api-provider-azure and added functionality to Cluster API and Open Service Mesh. Equally comfortable teaching and managing—he’s a TA for large Cornell CS courses and once scaled a Clojure backend to a leaner Python service—Jonathan blends systems-level rigor with pragmatic engineering for impactful, production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Student, High School Diploma, Student at Mission San Jose High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at Cornell UniversityC++ Programming, C++ Programming at UC Berkeley ExtensionComputer Science, Computer Science at UC Berkeley ATDP
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Github Skills (35)
service-mesh10
azuread10
kubernetes10
resource-dictionary10
testing10
lifecycle10
microsoft-azure10
crdt10
cicd10
azure-aks10
crt10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
cluster-api10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api-provider-azure
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Cluster API implementation for Microsoft Azure
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:387 reviews, 39 commits, 72 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily focused on improving the stability and maintainability of the `cluster-api-provider-azure` project. They addressed issues related to subnet CIDR validation, error message clarity, and streamlined testing procedures. Furthermore, the user modernized the code by fixing redundant imports and renaming package references. In addition, the user contributed significantly by implementing async operations for several Azure resources, demonstrating a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure management and development best practices.
apicluster-apik8s-sig-cluster-lifecyclek8s-provider-azuremicrosoft-azure
kubernetes-sigs/cluster-api
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Home for Cluster API, a subproject of sig-cluster-lifecycle
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:351 reviews, 17 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the Cluster API project by adding the "Age" column to various Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) within the project, specifically for `MachineDeployment`, `MachineSet`, `KubeadmControlPlane`, `MachinePool`, `MachineHealthCheck`, `Machine`, `Cluster`, `ClusterResourceSetBinding`, `Provider`, `KubeadmControlPlaneTemplate`, `ClusterResourceSet`, and `KubeadmConfigTemplate`. These changes involved modifying the code to include the new column in the print columns of the CRDs. The user also fixed a group issue and added the "Age" column to `DockerMachinePools`, and also added various code related to the `MachinePool` to core CAPI components, further contributing to the functionality of the infrastructure project.
apilifecyclesubprojectcluster-apisig
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