Summary
Maria Ma is a data analyst with 11 years of experience applying public health expertise to make sense of complex healthcare datasets and drive measurable improvements. Based in San Francisco, she blends epidemiology training (MPH, UC Berkeley) with hands-on data engineering, visualization, and automation—excelling at Google Sheets, dashboarding, record linkage, and browser automation. Her background spans government public health, global health NGOs, and health tech product teams, where she has built tools, R packages, and QA pipelines that rescued and improved real-world programs. Notably, she couples quantitative analysis with operational troubleshooting—identifying deployment issues and designing fixes that preserved critical data flows. Colleagues rely on her as an “all-around data MacGyver” who translates messy data into actionable insights for clinicians, product managers, and policymakers.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Public Health (MPH) Infectious Disease and Vaccinology, Master of Public Health (MPH) Infectious Disease and Vaccinology at University of California, Berkeley
BS Microbiology, BS Microbiology at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese, Shanghainese