Matthew Ma
Software Engineering Manager at Apple
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthew Ma is a software engineering manager with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams at Apple. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning React front-ends, Python/Django back-ends, Kafka-driven systems, and micro-frontend architectures—with product-focused delivery from his prior roles at Pluralsight and Kitware. At Kitware he contributed backend job-management APIs and admin UI improvements to the open-source Girder data management platform, showing attention to operational tooling and admin UX. His background includes architecting microservice auth and behavior-tracking libraries and delivering interactive data visualizations, reflecting a strong mix of infrastructure, observability, and user-facing polish. Matthew pairs technical depth with cross-functional communication, mentoring teams to ship reliable, test-driven solutions at scale.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Information Technology; Software Engineering, 3.83, Master of Science, Information Technology; Software Engineering, 3.83 at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteBachelor of Management, Marketing, Bachelor of Management, Marketing at Beijing University of Technology
English
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Github Skills (15)
api-rest10
rest-api10
api10
python10
apidoc10
back-end-development10
api-design10
data-management10
restful-api10
javascript9
data-analytics8
amazon-qldb6
docker4
git4
dockers4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
girder/girder
Feb 2017 - Apr 2019
A data management platform for the web, developed by Kitware
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 24 PRs, 104 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Matthew primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Girder data management platform, specifically focusing on job management and related API endpoints. They added a new API to list all jobs for system administrators, enhancing the platform's administrative capabilities. Furthermore, the user implemented a filtering mechanism for jobs based on different parameters like types and statuses, demonstrating a focus on improving the API's usability and features. They also worked on adding a GUI element to the admin console.
data-analyticsdata-managementpythonkitwaredata-science
Kitware/Danesfield-App
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Web application for the Danesfield System
Contributions:178 commits, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 6 months
web-application
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