Ron Ma
Software Engineer (Remote) at Freelance
Tel-Aviv District, Israel
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Top SchoolRon Ma is a seasoned software engineer with 13–14 years of experience specializing in the Java/JVM ecosystem and building distributed, highly scalable backend systems from the ground up. He has delivered production-grade services across fintech, cloud-native platforms, and large-scale marketplaces at companies like GOJEK, Agoda, JFrog, and Upwork, and has consulted for the United Nations. A polyglot and functional-minded developer, Ron pairs hands-on architecture and DevOps skills with full-stack and AI/agent development, and he actively contributes to open-source—most notably improving the widely used Reflections library for Java runtime metadata analysis. Autodidactic and mentorship-oriented, he favors lean, agile practices and continuous learning, and is open to mid/long-term remote contracts based out of Bangkok, Tokyo, or Tel Aviv.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Computer Science at The Open University of Israel
English, Hebrew, Japanese
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Github Skills (17)
reflection10
java10
javas10
reflections10
migration9
maven9
algorithm7
algorithms7
data-structure7
data-structures7
ruby6
javadoc6
jar6
jvm6
annotations6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ronmamo/reflections
Apr 2013 - Aug 2022
Java runtime metadata analysis
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 124 commits, 104 PRs in 9 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ron primarily worked on the Java runtime metadata analysis project, contributing to the core functionality of the Reflections library. Their commits involved modifying the `ReflectionUtils`, `ClasspathHelper`, `Reflections`, and other utility classes. These changes fixed issues, added functionality, and improved the library's overall robustness and efficiency. The user also implemented scanners and functionality for parameter names and member usage.
java
ronmamo/reflections-maven
Jun 2014 - May 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes in 11 months
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