Kelvin Ma
Director, Software Engineering at Travelers
Asheville, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKelvin Ma is a Director of Software Engineering with a decade of experience building high-impact, product-focused engineering teams and systems, currently leading integration and new product launches at Travelers following the $435M acquisition of Corvus Insurance. He combines hands-on technical fluency (Elixir, Elm, GraphQL, Phoenix, React) with cross-disciplinary leadership, having scaled Corvus engineering from a small team to a robust organization and delivered accelerated integrations that helped enable the acquisition. Kelvin has a track record of shipping automation, ML/AI-enabled underwriting tools and real-time microservices that materially improved operational efficiency and loss ratios. Earlier roles at Forward Financing highlight his ability to embed predictive models and OCR into underwriting pipelines and to found engineering programs like co-op initiatives and company hackathons. A former Pulitzer-nominated photojournalist, he brings storytelling instincts and visual communication skills to product design and stakeholder alignment. Based in Asheville, NC, he blends startup rigor with enterprise-scale delivery to bring insurance technology products to market quickly and reliably.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Web Development Immersive, Web Development Immersive at General AssemblyM.S. Journalism - Media Management, M.S. Journalism - Media Management at Northwestern University
Github Skills (27)
bucketlist8
react5
foreign5
jekyll5
foreign-keys5
gatsby4
backend4
sql-parser3
css3
elm2
typescript2
postgresql2
graphql2
sql2
rails1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
wdi09-lovelace-squad/bucketlist
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 8 PRs, 42 pushes in 26 days
reactbucketlist
kelvinma/coachR
Dec 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:48 commits, 30 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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