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.
8 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 (51)
objective-c10
ios10
digest10
xcode10
aes-gcm10
hmac10
aes10
swift10
macos10
cocoapods10
carthage9
rsa9
hmac-authentication9
des9
hash-functions9
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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