Michelle Ma
Board Member at Operators Guild
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichelle Ma is a strategic legal and operations leader with 11 years of experience helping technology startups scale through product counseling, commercial contracting, and go-to-market operations. She blends Big Law rigor with hands-on startup execution—founding and leading companies that build contract-review and consumer-facing legal products while serving as a board member for nonprofits and civic legal tech (Free Law Project). Michelle advises AI, SaaS, food tech, and e-commerce firms on product lifecycle risk, IP strategy, and M&A readiness, and has driven faster contract turnaround and GDPR compliance at scale. As an investor and Operators Guild leader she pairs operator networks with practical legal playbooks to accelerate growth. Outside work she’s creative and cross-disciplinary: she took a sabbatical to pursue darkroom photography, learned Mandarin and wrote a novel, reflecting a curiosity that informs her pragmatic, design-forward counsel.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mechanical Engineering at University of California, BerkeleyDoctor of Law (J.D.) Intellectual Property Law, Doctor of Law (J.D.) Intellectual Property Law at Santa Clara University School of Law
Github Skills (13)
scrape10
ufo10
database10
bibtex9
mdbook9
scraper9
citations9
api8
metadata8
python7
to-do5
git-addons3
git2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
freelawproject/eyecite
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Find legal citations in any block of text
Contributions:16 commits, 135 pushes in 4 months
legalcitationsufomdbookbibtex
freelawproject/reporters-db
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
A database of court reporters, tests and other experiments
Contributions:65 commits, 138 pushes, 252 comments in 4 months
courtdatabasereporters
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