Sylvan Ma
Senior Technical Program Manager at Microsoft
Haidian District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolSylvan Ma is a Senior Technical Program Manager with 15+ years in Internet R&D and a decade of technical management experience, now leading programs at Microsoft after serving as CTO for a fintech, retail, and medical SaaS startup. He combines hands-on Java and full-stack engineering with proven ability to take projects from 0 to 1, maintaining active involvement in core R&D while scaling distributed, microservice, and big data systems for high concurrency and availability. His background spans payments, ecommerce, digital retail, and gaming, including leadership of offline and cross-border payment platforms at YeePay and Leshi. Comfortable operating across regions and departments, he brings startup agility together with enterprise rigor and a practical bent for shipping resilient, production-grade systems. An often-overlooked strength is that he retains deep implementation skills despite senior roles, enabling him to bridge product, architecture, and execution effectively.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Hebei University of TechnologyMaster's degree, Compurter Application, Master's degree, Compurter Application at Tianjin University
Github Skills (33)
hmac10
aes10
md59
digest9
hmac-authentication9
aes-gcm9
cocoapods9
swift9
commoncrypto8
ios-application8
cryptography8
cryptoswift8
algorithms7
linear-algebra5
swift-package5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
SylvanM/Philosophy
Mar 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:4 releases, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
SylvanM/rusty_crypto
Dec 2022 - Jun 2024
An implementation of Elliptic Curve Cryptography (using Curve 25519) in Rust
Contributions:14 PRs, 57 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 6 months
cryptographyx25519rustellipticcurve
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