Shawn Ma
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShawn Ma is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with eight years of experience specializing in iOS infrastructure at LinkedIn, where he progressed from Senior to Staff roles working on flagship mobile systems. With prior iOS engineering experience at SAP and a strong academic background combining software engineering and creative technology (NYU ITP and Newcastle MA), he blends rigorous engineering with design-minded problem solving. Shawn focuses on building robust, scalable iOS infra that supports large-scale mobile products and developer productivity. He brings a multidisciplinary perspective—pairing a formal software engineering foundation with interactive media training—that helps him tackle platform-level challenges and experiment with new approaches.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program, Master's degree, Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York UniversityMaster of Arts - MA, Creative Arts Practice, Master of Arts - MA, Creative Arts Practice at Newcastle UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at South China University of Technology
Github Skills (43)
open-source10
scenekit10
sap10
joystick10
multipeer-connectivity10
sap-fiori10
swift10
swiftui10
arkit9
multiplayer9
ios9
algorithm9
data-structures8
ios-application8
rewriting7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ShawnMa16/AR-Drawing
Apr 2019 - May 2019
This is a project that recognizes shapes(Circle, line, triangle, rectangle) in 3D and regularize and visualize them back to 3D
Contributions:90 commits, 2 PRs, 49 pushes in 1 month
3d
ShawnMa16/Tom_and_Jerry
Oct 2018 - Jan 2021
A multiuser AR game based on ARKit 2 and MultipeerConnectivity
Contributions:60 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 3 months
arkitmultipeer-connectivityarkit2multipeerconnectivityjoystick
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