William Ma
Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Ma is a software engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in productionizing and scaling machine learning systems for advertising and recommendation at companies like Meta and Amazon. He combines hands-on engineering with AWS-centered deployment expertise—SageMaker, EC2, ECS, and Redshift—to turn forecasting and deep learning prototypes into reliable, large-scale services. At Meta he focuses on modern recommendation ecosystems and the content cold-start problem, building solutions that bridge data science research and production constraints. His background includes graduate research in NLP and deep reinforcement learning for story generation, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and applied ML engineering. Based in New York, he’s equally comfortable implementing developer-facing analytics and building core model infra, and has a track record of shipping robust validation, tooling, and scalable pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyRegents Diploma with Advanced Designation, Regents Diploma with Advanced Designation at Half Hollow Hills High School East
English, French, Chinese
Github Skills (25)
linux10
linux-kernel10
kernel10
location-based6
location6
java6
firebase3
tbd2
refactor2
javafx2
machine-learning2
gesture2
websocket2
artificial-intelligence2
react2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
willzma/MovieRecommenderFX
May 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
willzma/CS4641-Machine-Learning
Apr 2017 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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