Sixiang Ma
Software Engineer at Databricks
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSixiang Ma is a software engineer at Databricks with 12 years of experience designing and shipping distributed systems and platform software. He brings deep research roots—PhD work and multiple publications on cloud systems, timing, and performance—from roles at The Ohio State University and internships at ByteDance, EMC, and Intel. At Databricks he focuses on improving App Platform APIs, drawing on prior work that created tools like ZebraConf, SafeTimer, and wPerf to find configuration bugs, eliminate false timeouts, and pinpoint concurrency bottlenecks. He has hands-on experience productionizing distributed ML pipelines (Ray-based optimizations at ByteDance) and optimizing storage and VM performance across academic and industry projects. Based in California, he combines rigorous academic methods with pragmatic engineering to accelerate platform reliability and developer productivity. A less obvious strength is his track record of turning testing and measurement research into practical tooling that scales to real cloud systems.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at The Ohio State UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Xiamen UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
StarThinking/Python-Utils
May 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 8 years
StarThinking/reconf_test_gen
Apr 2020 - Jan 2021
Contributions:4 PRs, 283 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
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