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Summary
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SeniorXiao Ma is a seasoned engineering leader and architect with over a decade of experience building developer-facing platforms and observability products, currently serving as Senior Director of Engineering for Application Observability at Splunk. Previously he was Director of Engineering and Chief Architect at Medium, where he led product engineering, culture, and technical strategy to scale a platform for reading and writing at global scale. He co-founded Pattern Insight and architected its flagship Code Insight product, bridging his academic research in source code analysis and mobile systems with real-world tooling for developers. Xiao combines deep systems and programming languages expertise from a Ph.D. at UIUC with hands-on startup experience, recruiting, and customer-facing roles, making him equally effective on architecture, execution, and team growth. Colleagues describe him as passionate about building self-organized, high-performing teams and creating products that tangibly improve how engineers build software. A succinct motto—“just do IT”—underscores his pragmatic, action-oriented approach to shipping impactful engineering work.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (24)
luks8
shazam8
spectrum7
manjaro7
data-structures7
chroot6
busybox6
music5
transform5
linux-shell5
musl5
audio5
bash5
fourier-transform5
linux4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
pmars/gotools
Feb 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:6 releases, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
pmars/tools
Dec 2015 - Feb 2018
Command tools of Linux environment
Contributions:29 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
muslmanjarolinuxbashbusybox
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