Katy Ma
Staff Product Designer at Valon
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKaty Ma is a Staff Product Designer in New York with a decade of experience designing mission-critical digital products across startups and research labs. She joined Valon pre-Series A and scaled design from the first hires to a 20+ product team, leading core servicing domains—escrow and payments—that handle hundreds of thousands of loans and payments monthly. Katy builds design systems and cross-functional processes that blend brand, writing, component libraries, and open contribution culture to drive consistency and scale. Her background spans civic and public-interest tech at MIT Media Lab and tools for first responders at Mark43, giving her a strong user-research mindset for complex, high-stakes workflows. Known for shipping rapid product iterations (including a 75% registration rate transfer flow and a three-month company rebrand), she pairs strategic leadership with hands-on craft and mentorship.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Cross-registered in MAS and CMS, Cross-registered in MAS and CMS at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Arts - BA Media Arts & Sciences, Bachelor of Arts - BA Media Arts & Sciences at Wellesley College
Chinese, English
Github Skills (3)
flask7
python6
mapper4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kma2/website
Sep 2016 - Dec 2020
Contributions:91 commits, 8 PRs, 91 pushes in 4 years 4 months
kma2/whack2017
Dec 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:88 commits, 53 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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