Summary
Tim Ma is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable, data-driven systems and web applications, currently contributing at Google from Los Angeles. He blends a strong research pedigree—MS and BS in Computer Science from UCLA and UCSB and co-authored graph-algorithm work—with hands-on production delivery, from ETL and streaming fraud detection to high-throughput payment services that helped prevent millions in losses. Comfortable across full stack Ruby on Rails, React, Kubernetes, and AWS, Tim has designed resilient transaction monitoring for billions in annual payments and implemented balance checks and request-mirroring strategies to improve availability and reduce NSF events. He also has a background in ML research, having embedded neural-fingerprint modules into diverse models and optimized k-core algorithms for large graphs, showing a knack for turning academic ideas into practical systems. Colleagues describe him as detail-oriented and analytical, with a curious “gen ai sais quoi” approach to engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at University of California, Santa Barbara
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.8/4.0 at University of California, Los Angeles
Chinese, English