Tuling Ma
AI And Machine Learning Specialist (Volunteer) at Felidae Conservation Fund
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTuling Ma is an experienced software engineer and machine learning specialist with 14 years building production systems across AWS, LinkedIn, Dendron, and NASA projects. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Tuling combines backend and full‑stack expertise—having led Dendron’s backend and contributed UI and backlink features to its popular PKM repo—with applied ML work such as configuring camera imagery pipelines for conservation and implementing RAG pipelines for NASA’s airborne science. Their LinkedIn tenure includes building large-scale data pipelines, resume parsing and online serving models, and using dynamic programming for ranking optimizations. A committed volunteer and educator, Tuling has taught high school CS through Microsoft TEALS and continues to give back via humanitarian and conservation initiatives. They hold a B.S. with Honors in Computer Science from Caltech and an MS in Data Science from UCLA, pairing rigorous academics with practical, production-first engineering.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of TechnologyUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (10)
markdown10
user-interface10
markdown-it10
typescript-types9
react9
typescript9
typescripts9
javascript8
back-end-development8
testing7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dendronhq/dendron
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
The personal knowledge management (PKM) tool that grows as you do!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:156 reviews, 136 commits, 116 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tuling primarily contributed to the development of the personal knowledge management tool's user interface and backend, improving both the front-end elements and underlying structures. They added a description field to lookup buttons, which enhanced the user's interaction with the tool. Additionally, they modified the functionality of applying schema templates, modifying the application of body content. Finally, the user implemented features for adding and maintaining backlinks.
pkmknowledgevscodezettelkastenpersonal-knowledge-management
tma66/my-first-blog
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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