Leader & Builder
Hello, I'm
Andrew J. Ma.
Engineering leader with over two decades of experience crafting consumer applications, scaling enterprise services, and building highly effective teams.
22+
Years Eng Experience
15+
Years Leadership
Companies
Product Passion
Deep passion for building great products from end-user consumer applications to complex enterprise software and scalable services.
Team Growth
Proven excellence in building, leading, and mentoring highly effective engineering teams, both locally and across remote geo-locations.
Execution Bias
Strong track record of creative problem-solving, data-driven decision making, and an unrelenting bias for action to deliver customer value.
Career Trajectory
Engineering Manager Cloud Dataproc & Serverless Spark
- Leading a 34 person team for Core Dataproc Clusters, Serverless Spark and Developer Experiences.
- Manage cross-org partnership with multiple internal and external teams.
- Enhancing existing Spark platform on GCP for AI and ML workloads.
- Launched 3P plugins for Spark integration into Jupyter, Vertex AI, Colab notebooks & VS Code.
Facebook (Meta)
Engineering Manager AR / VR
- Launched Facebook’s first voice assistant in the first consumer device: Portal, bringing a richer video calling experience.
- Cross-functional owner for the “Hey Portal” assistant; integrated NLP/AI from research into Portal and Oculus VR headsets.
- Led delivery of unannounced AR and VR products while managing broad partner relationships globally.
Engineering Manager Facebook App
- Led expansion of the team focused on confidential projects executing experiences across the entire Facebook ecosystem.
- Created direction, built product, and executed the global launch for the new Visual Polls feature.
Groupon Inc.
Director of Engineering Global Mobile Consumer Platform
- Managed 36 engineers and managers across 6 teams building core Android/iOS mobile experiences.
- Broke into comScore’s top 25 mobile apps in 2016 (#2 in retail category).
Director of Engineering Things-to-do & Getaways
- Built a 22-engineer organization across Seattle and NYC managing travel & activities integrations.
Senior Mobile Engineering Manager Getaways
- Built v1 Android and iOS app driving a $300+ million business unit.
Amazon.com
Software Development Manager Amazon Prime Video
- Led the Core Mobile Platform team building foundational Android components (network, caching, auth).
- Spearheaded integration of Amazon Video directly into the flagship Amazon Shopping app.
Software Development Engineer Amazon Instant Video
- Senior leader launching products on 3 generations of Android tablets, TVs, and phones.
- Designed and implemented features like ASAP (Advanced Streaming and Prediction) and X-Ray integration.
Microsoft Corporation
Senior Software Engineer Manager Xbox LIVE / Bing
- Technical Lead for Xbox publishing portal running $2B/year of content.
- Managed the Structured Data Pipeline for Bing, ingesting millions of items daily.
- Created the Quality Scorecard to measure overall engineering health for Bing Search.
Software Engineer Office InfoPath / MSN Shopping
- Owned XML feed ingestion system handling 50+ million products at MSN Shopping.
Education
2002
University of Waterloo
Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Computer Science
Waterloo, Ontario | Co-operative Education Program