Maria So
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Top SchoolMaria So is a mission-driven People Development professional with over two decades of HR experience and six years as an independent freelancer, specializing in talent, learning and diversity across Greater China, Asia and APAC. She has led regional HR transformation and knowledge management initiatives at CBRE, translating strategic objectives into scalable talent development programs that support business growth. Her background spans non-profit and corporate sectors, giving her a pragmatic blend of stakeholder partnership and people-centered change management. Academically grounded with master’s degrees in HR management and total quality management plus a distinction in knowledge management, she combines process rigor with learning design. Unusually for an HR leader, she also contributes to open-source engineering work—fixing core issues in the high-performance Swoole coroutine library—demonstrating a rare aptitude for technical problem solving and performance tuning. This mix of strategic HR leadership and hands-on technical curiosity enables her to craft seamless, measurable solutions that bridge people, knowledge and systems.
6 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Post Graduate Diploma, Knowledge Management, Distinction, Post Graduate Diploma, Knowledge Management, Distinction at The Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityMaster's degree, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence, Master's degree, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence at Sheffield Hallam UniversityMaster's degree, Human Resources Management and Training, Master's degree, Human Resources Management and Training at University of Leicester
Github Skills (9)
c1710
debug10
php10
coroutines10
c1110
performance-optimization10
filesystem9
http9
postgresql8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
swoole/swoole-src
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
🚀 Coroutine-based concurrency library for PHP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 40 reviews, 53 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Maria contributed to bug fixes and optimizations within the Swoole project. Their work included addressing issues related to file system operations in coroutines, improving the handling of HTTP headers, and correcting errors in the PostgreSQL coroutine implementation. They also made changes to the underlying C code, indicating involvement in core system-level improvements and performance tuning.
concurrencyasynchronouseventconcurrency-libraryphp
NathanFreeman/FrameworkBenchmarks
Sep 2023 - Feb 2025
Source for the TechEmpower Framework Benchmarks project
Contributions:52 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 5 months
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